Zechariah 4:1 et reversus est angelus qui loquebatur in me et suscitavit me quasi virum qui suscitatur de somno suo

And the angel who spoke in me turned back and roused me, like one who rouses man from his sleep.

4:2 et dixit ad me quid tu vides et dixi vidi et ecce candelabrum aureum totum et lampas eius super caput ipsius et septem lucernae eius super illud septem et septem infusoria lucernis quae erant super caput illius

And he said to me, "What do you see?"

And I said, "I saw, and look, a candelabra of pure gold, and its lamp over its head, and its seven lights over it. And seven tubes of oil for the lamps, which were over its head.

4:3 et duae olivae super illud una a dextris lampadis et una a sinistris eius

And two olive trees over it, one at the lamp’s right and the other at its left.

4:4 et respondi et aio ad angelum qui loquebatur in me dicens quid sunt haec domine mi

And I responded and said to the angel who spoke in me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"

4:5 et respondit angelus qui loquebatur in me et dixit ad me numquid nescis quid sunt haec et dixi non domine mi

And the angel who spoke in me responded and said, "Don’t you know what these are?"

And I said, "No, my lord."

4:6 et respondit et ait ad me dicens hoc est verbum Domini ad Zorobabel dicens non in exercitu nec in robore sed in spiritu meo dicit Dominus exercituum

And he responded and spoke to me, saying, "This is the Lord’s word to Zerubbabel, saying, Neither in army nor in strength, but in My spirit, the Lord of armies says.

4:7 quis tu mons magne coram Zorobabel in planum et educet lapidem primarium et exaequabit gratiam gratiae eius

"Who are you, great mountain, before Zerubbabel? You will turn into a plain! And he will bring out the first stone, and equalize grace by his grace.

4:8 et factum est verbum Domini ad me dicens

And the Lord’s word came to me, saying,

4:9 manus Zorobabel fundaverunt domum istam et manus eius perficient eam et scietis quia Dominus exercituum misit me ad vos

"Zerubbabel’s hands laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will finish it. And you will know that the Lord of armies sent me to you.

4:10 quis enim despexit dies parvos et laetabuntur et videbunt lapidem stagneum in manu Zorobabel septem isti oculi Domini qui discurrunt in universa terra

"For who despised small days? And they will rejoice. And they will see the tin stone in Zerubbabel’s hands. These seven are the Lord’s eyes, which wander in all the land.

4:11 et respondi et dixi ad eum quid sunt duae olivae istae ad dextram candelabri et ad sinistram eius

And I responded and said to him, "What are these two olive trees, to the candelabra’s right and to its left?"

4:12 et respondi secundo et dixi ad eum quid sunt duae spicae olivarum quae sunt iuxta duo rostra aurea in quibus sunt suffusoria ex auro

And I responded a second time and said to him, "What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two gold lecterns, in which are the tubes from the gold?"

4:13 et ait ad me dicens numquid nescis quid sunt haec et dixi non domine

And he spoke to me, saying, "Don’t you know what these are?"

And I said, "No, lord."

4:14 et dixit isti duo filii olei qui adsistunt Dominatori universae terrae

And he said, "These are two sons of oil, which stand before the Ruler of all the land.

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Latin text from "The Latin Vulgate." Biblia Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem, Fourth Revised Edition, edited by Roger Gryson, © 1994 Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Stuttgart. Used by permission.