A Vision of a Golden Lampstand

¹And fthe angel who talked with me came again gand woke me, like a man who is awakened out of his sleep. ²And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, ha lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and iseven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it. ³And there are jtwo olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on its left.” ⁴And I said to fthe angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?” ⁵Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, k“Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.” ⁶Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to lZerubbabel: mNot by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. ⁷Who are you, nO great mountain? Before lZerubbabel oyou shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward pthe top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”

⁸Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, ⁹q“The hands of lZerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also rcomplete it. sThen you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. ¹⁰tFor whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see uthe plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.

v“These seven vare the eyes of the Lord, wwhich range through the whole earth.” ¹¹Then I said to him, “What are these jtwo olive trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?” ¹²And a second time I answered and said to him, “What are these jtwo branches of the olive trees, which are beside the two golden pipes from which the golden oil1 is poured out?” ¹³He said to me, x“Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.” ¹⁴Then he said, y“These are the two anointed ones2 who stand by zthe Lord of the whole earth.”