Zechariah 4:5-7

Living Bible

⁵ “Don’t you really know?” the angel asked.

“No, sir,” I said, “I don’t.”

⁶ Then he said, “This is God’s message to Zerubbabel:^[a] ‘Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord Almighty—you will succeed because of my Spirit, though you are few and weak.’ ⁷ Therefore no mountain, however high, can stand before Zerubbabel! For it will flatten out before him! And Zerubbabel will finish building this Temple^[b] with mighty shouts of thanksgiving for God’s mercy, declaring that all was done by grace alone.”