“This is what the Lord of Hosts says: If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, you will both rule My house and take care of My courts; I will also grant you access among these who are standing here.

“Listen, Joshua the high priest, you and your colleagues sitting before you; indeed, these men are a sign that I am about to bring My servant, the Branch.(A) Notice the stone(B) I have set before Joshua; on that one stone are seven eyes.(C) I will engrave an inscription on it”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and I will take away the guilt of this land in a single day.

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“This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements,(A) then you will govern my house(B) and have charge(C) of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.(D)

“‘Listen, High Priest(E) Joshua, you and your associates seated before you, who are men symbolic(F) of things to come: I am going to bring my servant, the Branch.(G) See, the stone I have set in front of Joshua!(H) There are seven eyes[a](I) on that one stone,(J) and I will engrave an inscription on it,’ says the Lord Almighty, ‘and I will remove the sin(K) of this land in a single day.

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Footnotes

  1. Zechariah 3:9 Or facets