7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.

4 Yet now ^qbe strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the Lord. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for ^rI am with you, declares the Lord of hosts, 5 according to the ^scovenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. ^tMy Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not.