Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,

Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? And how do ye see it now? Is it not in your eyes as nothing?

Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says LORD, and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and be strong, all ye people of the land, says LORD, and work. For I am with you, says LORD of hosts,

Thus says LORD of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of LORD.