Zechariah 4:5
Hebrew Text— Zechariah 4:5Then the angel who talked with me answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”
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Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!
You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I didn’t understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.
They said to him, “We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it.” Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me.”
Great is Yahweh, and greatly to be praised! His greatness is unsearchable.
Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways. How small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?”
Many, Yahweh, my God, are the wonderful works which you have done, and your thoughts which are toward us. They can’t be declared back to you. If I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be counted.
Yahweh, my heart isn’t arrogant, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.
The king answered to Daniel, and said, “Of a truth your God is the God of gods, and the Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, since you have been able to reveal this secret.”
Then I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these, my lord?”
He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.
When Peter saw it, he responded to the people, “You men of Israel, why do you marvel at this man? Why do you fasten your eyes on us, as though by our own power or godliness we had made him walk?
not that we are sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but our sufficiency is from God,
As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.
He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.
Your testimonies are wonderful, therefore my soul keeps them.
but there is a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and he has made known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream, and the visions of your head on your bed, are these:
He instructed me and talked with me, and said, Daniel, “I have now come to give you wisdom and understanding.
I asked the angel who talked with me, “What are these?” He answered me, “These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.”
I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, “What are these, my lord?”
He answered me, “Don’t you know what these are?” I said, “No, my lord.”
He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
I have spoken these things to you in figures of speech. But the time is coming when I will no more speak to you in figures of speech, but will tell you plainly about the Father.
For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
The angel of God said to me in the dream, ‘Jacob,’ and I said, ‘Here I am.’
He said to him, “Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again.” So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
but he hanged the chief baker, as Joseph had interpreted to them.
Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, “It isn’t in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace.”
Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
That is the thing which I have spoken to Pharaoh. God has shown Pharaoh what he is about to do.
He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”
Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said to them, “Hear now, you rebels! Shall we bring water out of this rock for you?”
David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.
He said, “If Yahweh doesn’t help you, where could I get help for you? From of the threshing floor, or from the wine press?”
David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel; for his kingdom was exalted on high, for his people Israel’s sake.
Your righteousness also, God, reaches to the heavens; you have done great things. God, who is like you?
until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true.
This knowledge is beyond me. It’s lofty. I can’t attain it.
“There are three things which are too amazing for me, four which I don’t understand:
That which is, is far off and exceedingly deep. Who can find it out?
For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.
He has left his covert, as the lion; for their land has become an astonishment because of the fierceness of the oppression, and because of his fierce anger.
“Say now to the rebellious house, ‘Don’t you know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took its king, and its princes, and brought them to him to Babylon.
Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom; and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
He reveals the deep and secret things. He knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him.
But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your heart.
Daniel requested of the king, and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego over the affairs of the province of Babylon; but Daniel was in the king’s gate.
It has seemed good to me to show the signs and wonders that the Most High God has worked toward me.
I 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.
Then I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns. The two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.
I heard a man’s voice between the banks of the Ulai, which called, and said, “Gabriel, make this man understand the vision.”
For, behold, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought; who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the high places of the earth: Yahweh, the God of Armies, is his name.”
Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’ ” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
I lifted up my eyes, and saw, and behold, four horns.
Behold, the angel who talked with me went out, and another angel went out to meet him,
He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
Then I asked him, “What are these two olive trees on the right side of the lamp stand and on the left side of it?”
Then 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.”
Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
He said to them, “Don’t you understand this parable? How will you understand all of the parables?
He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,
Unless the Lord had shortened the days, no flesh would have been saved; but for the sake of the chosen ones, whom he picked out, he shortened the days.
saying, “If you, even you, had known today the things which belong to your peace! But now, they are hidden from your eyes.
He took him by the right hand and raised him up. Immediately his feet and his ankle bones received strength.
When Peter entered, Cornelius met him, fell down at his feet, and worshiped him.
and said to them, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with injury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.”
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, for those who are called according to his purpose.
But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
For all things are for your sakes, that the grace, being multiplied through the many, may cause the thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God.