Thomson(i)
1 Then the angel who talked with me turned and roused me, as when a man is roused from his sleep,
2 and said to me, what dost thou see? And I said, I have looked and lo! a candlestick all of gold with the lamp dish on the top of it; and seven lamps on the top of it; and seven pipes, for the seven lamps on the top of it;
3 and two olive trees over it, one on the right of its lamp dish and the other on its left.
4 Then I inquired and spoke to the angel who was talking with me, and said, Lord what are these?
5 And the angel who was talking with me, answered and said to me, Dost thou not know what these are? When I said, No, lord.
6 Then he answered and said to me, This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying, "Not by mighty power nor by strength, but by my spirit" saith the Lord Almighty.
7 Who art thou; to complete this mountain; this great one; this before Zorobabel! I will indeed bring out the stone of the inheritance, an equality of favour, a free gift of it.
8 Then a word of the Lord came to me saying,
9 "The hands of Zorobabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands shall finish it: and thou shalt know, [since the Lord Almighty hath sent me to thee,
10 since a certain person hath despised these as small days,] that those seven eyes will be gladdened, when they shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zorobabel; they are the eyes which survey the whole earth.
11 Then I answered and said to him, What are those two olive trees which are on the right and left of the candlestick?
12 And I inquired a second time and said to him, What are those two branches of the olive trees which are in the handles of those two funnels of gold, which are pouring into and supplying the golden pipes?
13 And he said to me, Dost thou not know what these are? And when I said, No, lord.
14 Then he said to me, These are the two sons of fatness. They stand before the Lord of the whole earth.