Moff ZEC Chapter 4

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4 Once more the angel who talked to me roused me, like a man roused from sleep. 2 He asked me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see a lampstand there, all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it and seven lamps round it, and seven pipes to the lamps on the top of it; 3 also two olive-trees beside it, one to the right of the bowl and the other to the left.” 4 Then I asked the angel who talked to me, “What are these, sir?” 5 The angel answered, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, sir.” 6 Then he replied,

“What are you, O mighty mountain?

Be level ground before Zerubbabel!

Then shall he bring out the coping-stone

amid shouts of ‘Splendid, splendid!’ ” 8 This message from the Eternal also came to me:

“As the hands of Zerubbabel laid the foundations of this house,

so shall his hands finish it

(showing you that the Lord of hosts did send me to you).

For any who despised the day of small things

shall rejoice then to behold

the final plumb-line in Zerubbabel’s hands. 11 I asked him, “What are these two olive-trees on the right and the left of the lampstand?” 12 [[I asked him a second time, “What are these two olive- branches, held by the two golden spouts that empty oil into the golden bowl?”]] 13 He answered, “Do you not know what these are?” I said, “No, sir.” Then he replied, 14 “These are the sources of the oil of bliss, the two men who stand before the Lord of all the earth.”

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