Be not like your fathers, to whom the voice of the earlier prophets came, saying, Be turned now from your evil ways and from your evil doings: but they did not give ear to me or take note, says the Lord.

Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.

Give ear now, O Joshua, the high priest, you and your friends who are seated before you; for these are men who are a sign: for see, I will let my servant the Branch be seen.

And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.

Now they of Beth-el had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech to make a request for grace from the Lord,

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your hands be strong, you who are now hearing these words from the mouths of the prophets, that is to say, in the days when the base of the house of the Lord of armies has been put in place for the building of the house, that is the Temple.

But now I will not be to the rest of this people as I was in the past, says the Lord of armies.

And I will put my forces in position round my house, so that there may be no coming and going: and no cruel master will again go through them: for now I have seen his trouble.