1. Then the angel who was talking with me returned and woke me up as if I had been asleep.
2. He asked me, “What do you see?”I said, “I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top. And there are seven lamps and also seven places for wicks.
3. There are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on the left.”
4. I asked the angel who talked with me, “Sir, what are these?”
5. The angel said, “Don’t you know what they are?”“No, sir,” I said.
6. Then he told me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘You will not succeed by your own strength or by your own power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord All-Powerful.
7. “Who are you, big mountain? In front of Zerubbabel you will become flat land, and he will bring out the topmost stone, shouting, ‘It’s beautiful! It’s beautiful!’ ”
8. Then the Lord spoke his word to me again, saying,