Here then is what the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Think carefully about what you are doing.

Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, before one stone was laid on another in the Lord’s temple.

Even so, take heart, Zerubbabel,’ says the Lord. ‘Take heart, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all you citizens of the land,’ says the Lord, ‘and begin to work. For I am with you,’ says the Lord who rules over all.