1 The angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, the way a man is roused from sleep.
2 "What do you see?" he asked me. I answered, "I see a lampstand made entirely of gold, with a bowl at the top and seven lamps upon it, and seven pipes to each of the lamps at its top.
3 Beside it stand two olive trees, one to the right of the bowl and one to its left."
4 Then I asked the angel who was speaking with me, "My lord, what are these?"
5 The angel who was speaking with me replied, "Don't you know what they are?" "No, my lord," I said.
6 Then he explained to me: "This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel: Not by might and not by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD of hosts.
7 What are you, great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will be flattened into a plain. He will bring out the top stone to shouts of 'Grace, grace to it!'"
8 Then the word of the LORD came to me:
9 Zerubbabel's hands laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it; then you will know that the LORD of hosts sent me to you.
10 Who has looked down on the day of small beginnings? They will rejoice when they see the plumb stone in Zerubbabel's hand. These seven are the eyes of the LORD that roam over the whole earth.
11 I then asked him, "What do the two olive trees mean, the one to the right of the lampstand and the one to its left?"
12 I asked him a second question: "What are the two olive branches beside the two gold spouts that empty the golden oil out of themselves?"
13 He said, "Don't you know what they are?" "No, my lord," I replied.
14 So he said, "These are the two sons of oil who stand beside the Lord of all the earth."