Zechariah 4:4-6

International Standard Version

⁴ Then I asked the angel who had been speaking with me, “Sir,^[a] what are these?”

⁵ The angel who had been speaking with me answered by asking, “You don’t know what these mean, do you?”

So I responded, “No, sir.”

The Lord’s First Charge to Zerubbabel

⁶ Then he replied to me, “This is this message from the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by valor nor by strength, but only by my Spirit,’ says the Lord of the Heavenly Armies.