Zechariah 4:4

New Century Version

I asked the angel who talked with me, "Sir, what are these?"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then I asked the angel who was speaking with me, “What are these, my lord?”

Hebrew Names Version
I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"

King James Version (1611)
So I answered and spake to the Angell that talked with mee, saying: What are these, my Lord?

King James Version
So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

English Standard Version
And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"

New American Standard Bible
Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"

Amplified Bible
So I asked the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these, my lord?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
So I answered, and spake to the Angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my Lord?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me saying, "What are these, my lord?"

Legacy Standard Bible
Then I answered and said to the angel who was speaking with me saying, "What are these, my lord?"

Berean Standard Bible
"What are these, my lord?" I asked the angel who was speaking with me.

Contemporary English Version
But, sir, what do these mean?"

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

Darby Translation
And I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

Easy-to-Read Version
Then I asked the angel who was speaking with me, "Sir, what do these things mean?"

George Lamsa Translation
So I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

Good News Translation
Then I asked the angel, "What do these things stand for, sir?"

Lexham English Bible
And I answered and said to the angel who was talking to me, "What are these, my lord?"

Literal Translation
And I answered and spoke to the angel who was talking with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

American Standard Version
And I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

Bible in Basic English
And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I answered and spoke to the angel that spoke with me, saying: 'What are these, my lord?'

Bishop's Bible (1568)
So I aunswered, and spake to the angell that talked with me, saying, O my Lorde, what are these?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And I inquired, and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these things, my lord?

English Revised Version
And I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

World English Bible
I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Y answeride, and seide to the aungel that spak in me, and Y seide, What ben these thingis, my lord?

Update Bible Version
And I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?

Webster's Bible Translation
So I answered and spoke to the angel that talked with me, saying, What [are] these, my lord?

New English Translation
Then I asked the messenger who spoke with me, "What are these, sir?"

New King James Version
So I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"

New Living Translation
Then I asked the angel, "What are these, my lord? What do they mean?"

New Life Bible
Then I said to the angel who was speaking with me, "What are these, my lord?"

New Revised Standard
I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded I, and said unto the messenger who was speaking with me, saying, - What are these, my lord?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I answered, and said to the angel that spoke in me, saying: What are these things, my lord?

Revised Standard Version
And I said to the angel who talked with me, "What are these, my lord?"

Young's Literal Translation
And I answer and speak unto the messenger who is speaking with me, saying, `What [are] these, my lord?'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So I answered, & spake to the angel yt talked with me, sayenge: O my lorde what are these?

THE MESSAGE
Then I asked the Messenger-Angel, "What does this mean, sir?"

Contextual Overview

¹ Then the angel who was talking with me returned and woke me up as if I had been asleep. ² He asked me, "What do you see?" I said, "I see a solid gold lampstand with a bowl at the top. And there are seven lamps and also seven places for wicks. ³ There are two olive trees by it, one on the right of the bowl and the other on the left." ⁴ I asked the angel who talked with me, "Sir, what are these?" ⁵ The angel said, "Don't you know what they are?" "No, sir," I said. ⁶ Then he told me, "This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘You will not succeed by your own strength or by your own power, but by my Spirit,' says the Lord All-Powerful. ⁷ "Who are you, big mountain? In front of Zerubbabel you will become flat land, and he will bring out the topmost stone, shouting, ‘It's beautiful! It's beautiful!'" ⁸ Then the Lord spoke his word to me again, saying, ⁹ "Zerubbabel has laid the foundation of this Temple, and he will complete it. Then you will know that the Lord All-Powerful has sent me to you. ¹⁰ "The people should not think that small beginnings are unimportant. They will be happy when they see Zerubbabel with tools, building the Temple. "(These are the seven eyes of the Lord , which look back and forth across the earth.)"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

What: Zechariah 4:12-14, Zechariah 1:9, Zechariah 1:19, Zechariah 5:6, Zechariah 6:4, Daniel 7:16-19, Daniel 12:8, Matthew 13:36, Revelation 7:13, Revelation 7:14

Cross-References

Genesis 4:16
So Cain went away from the Lord and lived in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

Genesis 4:17
He had sexual relations with his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. At that time Cain was building a city, which he named after his son Enoch.

Genesis 4:19
Lamech married two women, Adah and Zillah.

Genesis 4:20
Adah gave birth to Jabal, who became the first person to live in tents and raise cattle.

Genesis 15:17
After the sun went down, it was very dark. Suddenly a smoking firepot and a blazing torch passed between the halves of the dead animals.

Exodus 13:12
you must give him every firstborn male. Also every firstborn male animal must be given to the Lord .

Leviticus 9:24
Fire came out from the Lord and burned up the burnt offering and fat on the altar. When the people saw this, they shouted with joy and bowed facedown on the ground.

Numbers 16:35
Then a fire came down from the Lord and destroyed the two hundred fifty men who had presented the incense.

Numbers 18:12
"And I give you all the best olive oil and all the best new wine and grain. This is what the Israelites give to me, the Lord , from the first crops they harvest.

Numbers 18:17
"But you must not make a payment for the firstborn ox or sheep or goat. Those animals are holy. Sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire. The smell is pleasing to the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So I answered, and spake to the angel that talked with me,.... The same that awoke him out of sleep, and asked him what he saw:

saying, What [are] these, my lord? that is, what do they signify? what do they represent? or what are they emblems of? for he knew what they were; that they were a candlestick, and two olive trees; but he was desirous of knowing what the meaning of them were.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Osorius: “Awakened from his state of sleep, even thus the prophet seemed slowly to understand what was shown him. He asks then of the instructing angel. The angel, almost amazed, asks if he knowns it not, and when he plainly declares his ignorance, makes clear the enigma of the vision.”