Zechariah 4:6-8

New Catholic Bible

⁶ Then he said to me, “This is the Lord’s message to Zerubbabel: Not by force, nor by strength, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. ⁷ What are you, O great mountain? Compared with Zerubbabel, you are nothing more than a plain. He will bring out the capstone amid shouts of acclamation.”

⁸ This word of the Lord was then addressed to me as follows: