The Hebrew Prophets

ADONAI said to the Accuser, "May ADONAI rebuke you, Accuser! Indeed, may ADONAI, who has made Yerushalayim his choice, rebuke you! Isn't this man a burning stick snatched from the fire?"

Y'hoshua was clothed in garments covered with dung; and he was standing before the angel,

who said to those standing in front of him, "Take those filthy garments off of him." Then to him he said, "See, I am taking your guilt away. I will clothe you in fine robes."

I said, "They should put a clean turban on his head." So they put a clean turban on his head and gave him fine robes to wear, while the angel of ADONAI stood by.

Then the angel of ADONAI gave Y'hoshua this warning:

"ADONAI-Tzva'ot says this: 'If you will walk in my ways, obey my commission, judge my house and guard my courtyards; then I will give you free access among these who are standing here.

Listen, cohen gadol Y'hoshua, both you and your colleagues seated here before you, because these men are a sign that I am going to bring my servant Tzemach [Sprout].

For look at the stone I have put in front of Y'hoshua: on one stone are seven eyes; I will engrave what is to be written on it,' says ADONAI-Tzva'ot; 'and I will remove the guilt of this land in one day.

When that time comes,' says ADONAI-Tzva'ot, 'you will all invite each other to join you under your vines and fig trees.'"

Then the angel that had been speaking with me returned and roused me, as if he were waking someone up from being asleep,

and asked me, "What do you see?" I answered, "I've been looking at a menorah; it's all of gold, with a bowl at its top, seven lamps on it, and seven tubes leading to the lamps at its top.

Next to it are two olive trees, one on the right side of the bowl and the other on its left."

I then asked the angel speaking with me, "What are these, my Lord?" The angel speaking with me said,

"Don't you know what these are?" I said, "No, my Lord."

Then he answered me, "This is the word of ADONAI to Z'rubavel: 'Not by force, and not by power, but by my Spirit,' says ADONAI-Tzva'ot.

'What are you, you big mountain? Before Z'rubavel you will become a plain; and he will put the capstone in place, as everyone shouts, "It's beautiful! Beautiful!"'

This message from ADONAI came to me:

'The hands of Z'rubavel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will also finish it.' Then you will know that ADONAI-Tzva'ot sent me to you.

For even someone who doesn't think much of a day when such minor events take place will rejoice at seeing the plumbline in the hand of Z'rubavel. So these seven are the eyes of ADONAI that range about over all the earth."

I replied by asking him, "What are those two olive trees on the right and left sides of the menorah?"

Then I asked the question again: "What are those two olive branches discharging gold[-colored oil] through the two gold spouts?"

He replied, "Don't you know what they are?" I answered, "No, my Lord."

He said, "Those are the two who have been anointed with oil; they are standing with the Lord of all the land."

Again I raised my eyes, and I saw in front of me a flying scroll.

He said to me, "What do you see?" I replied, "I see a flying scroll thirty feet long and fifteen feet wide.