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32 lines
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# Chapter 4
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1 Now the angel who talked with me came back and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
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2 And he said to me, “What do you see?”
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So I said, “I am looking, and there is a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top of it, and on the stand seven lamps with seven pipes to the seven lamps.
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3 Two olive trees are by it, one at the right of the bowl and the other at its left.”
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4 So I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”
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5 Then the angel who talked with me answered and said to me, “Do you not know what these are?”
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And I said, “No, my lord.”
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6 So he answered and said to me:
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“This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel:
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‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’
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Says the Lord of hosts.
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7 ‘Who are you, O great mountain?
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Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain!
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And he shall bring forth the capstone
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With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!” ’ ”
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8 Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying:
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9 “The hands of Zerubbabel
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Have laid the foundation of this temple;
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His hands shall also finish it.
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Then you will know
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That the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you.
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10 For who has despised the day of small things?
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For these seven rejoice to see
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The plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.
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They are the eyes of the Lord,
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Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth.”
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11 Then I answered and said to him, “What are these two olive trees—at the right of the lampstand and at its left?”
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12 And I further answered and said to him, “What are these two olive branches that drip into the receptacles of the two gold pipes from which the golden oil drains?”
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13 Then he answered me and said, “Do you not know what these are?”
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And I said, “No, my lord.”
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14 So he said, “These are the two anointed ones, who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth.” |