²⁶ On this I have awaked, and I behold, and my sleep hath been sweet to me.

² Vain for you who are rising early, Who delay sitting, eating the bread of griefs, So He giveth to His beloved one sleep.

¹ And the messenger who is speaking with me doth turn back, and stir me up as one who is stirred up out of his sleep,

² and he saith unto me, `What art thou seeing?' And I say, `I have looked, and lo, a candlestick of gold -- all of it, and its bowl `is' on its top, and its seven lamps `are' upon it, and twice seven pipes `are' to the lights that `are' on its top,