The gold lampstand and the two olive trees

¹Then the angel who talked with me returned and woke me up, like someone awakened from sleep. ² He asked me, ‘What do you see?’

I answered, ‘I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top and seven lamps on it, with seven channels to the lamps. ³ Also there are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.’

⁴ I asked the angel who talked with me, ‘What are these, my lord?’

⁵ He answered, ‘Do you not know what these are?’

‘No, my lord,’ I replied.

⁶ So he said to me, ‘This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: “Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,” says the Lord Almighty.

⁷ ‘What are you, mighty mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become level ground. Then he will bring out the capstone to shouts of “God bless it! God bless it!”’

⁸ Then the word of the Lord came to me: ⁹ ‘The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple; his hands will also complete it. Then you will know that the Lord Almighty has sent me to you.

¹⁰ ‘Who dares despise the day of small things, since the seven eyes of the Lord that range throughout the earth will rejoice when they see the chosen capstone^[a] in the hand of Zerubbabel?’

¹¹ Then I asked the angel, ‘What are these two olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?’

¹² Again I asked him, ‘What are these two olive branches beside the two gold pipes that pour out golden oil?’

¹³ He replied, ‘Do you not know what these are?’

‘No, my lord,’ I said.

¹⁴ So he said, ‘These are the two who are anointed to^[b] serve the Lord of all the earth.’