Bible in Basic English
"And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?"
— Zechariah 4:4, Bible in Basic English
“So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?”
“And I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord? ”
“I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, "What are these, my lord?"”
“Then I asked the messenger who spoke with me,“What are these, sir?””
“And I answered, and said to the angel that spoke in me, saying: What are these things, my lord?”
“So I answered and spake to the angel that talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?”
And the angel who was talking to me came again, awaking me as a man out of his sleep.
And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it;
And two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the cup and one on the left.
And I made answer and said to the angel who was talking to me, What are these, my lord?
Then the angel who was talking to me, answering me, said, Have you no knowledge of what these are? And I said, No, my lord.
This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by force or by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord of armies.
Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it.