Zechariah 1:9

⁴I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”

⁵Then the angel who talked with me answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”

¹³One of the elders answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”

¹⁴I told him, “My lord, you know.” He said to me, “These are those who came out of the great suffering.^[+] They washed their robes and made them white in the Lamb’s blood.

⁵Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, “Lift up now your eyes and see what this is that is appearing.”

²²He instructed me and talked with me, and said, “Daniel, I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding. ²³At the beginning of your petitions the commandment went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter and understand the vision.

¹¹The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’

¹⁹I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”

³Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,

¹⁵When I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. Then behold, there stood before me someone with the appearance of a man. ¹⁶I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”

¹⁶I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. “So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.

¹¹Then I asked him, “What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the left side of it?”