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Zacharias 4:6

And he answered, and spoke to me, saying: This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying: Not with an army, nor by might, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts.

Challoner: To ZorobabelThis vision was in favour of Zorobabel: to assure him of success in the building of the temple, which he had begun, signified by the candlestick; the lamp of which, without any other industry, was supplied with oil, dropping from the two olive trees, and distributed by the seven funnels or pipes, to maintain the seven lights.

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In the palace

InterpretiveZorobabel's Mountain and the Mountain Cast into the Sea

The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Et respondit, et ait ad me, dicens : Hoc est verbum Domini ad Zorobabel, dicens : Non in exercitu, nec in robore, sed in spiritu meo, dicit Dominus exercituum.
Septuagint (Swete): καὶ ἀπεκρίθη καὶ εἶπεν πρὸς μὲ λέγων Οὗτος ὁ λόγος Κυρίου πρὸς Ζοροβαβὲλ λέγων Οὐκ ἐν δυνάμει μεγάλῃ οὐδὲ ἐν ἰσχύι ἀλλ᾽ ἢ ἐν πνεύματί μου, λέγει Κύριος Παντοκράτωρ.
Hebrew (WLC): וַיַּ֜עַן וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֵלַי֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר זֶ֚ה דְּבַר יְהוָ֔ה אֶל זְרֻבָּבֶ֖ל לֵאמֹ֑ר לֹ֤א בְחַ֨יִל֙ וְלֹ֣א בְכֹ֔חַ כִּ֣י אִם בְּרוּחִ֔י אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת

Haydock's commentary

To Zorobabel. This vision was in favour of Zorobabel, to assure him of success in the building of the temple, which he had begun, signified by the candlestick; the lamp of which, without any other industry, was supplied with oil dropping from the two olive-trees, and distributed by the seven funnels or pipes, to maintain the seven lights. (Challoner)

Zorobabel might thus be comforted with the assurance that God would protect his Church. (Worthington)

Spirit, represented by the eyes. The Messias would receive the fulness of this spirit, Isaias xi. 2. (Calmet)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.