⁸ Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

¹³ For the Lord's heart is on Zion, desiring it for his resting-place.

¹⁴ This is my rest for ever: here will I ever be; for this is my desire.

⁷ And I will make a shaking of all the nations, and the desired things of all nations will come: and I will make this house full of my glory, says the Lord of armies.

³¹ Then when he had gone out, Jesus said, Now is glory given to the Son of man, and God is given glory in him.

³² If God is given glory in him, God will give him glory in himself, and will give him glory even now.

⁸ Let your change of heart be seen in your works:

⁹ And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.

¹ Let your doors be open, O Lebanon, so that fire may be burning among your cedars.

² Give a cry of grief, O fir-tree, for the fall of the cedar, because the great ones have been made low: give cries of grief, O you oaks of Bashan, for the strong trees of the wood have come down.

⁹ The second glory of this house will be greater than the first, says the Lord of armies: and in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of armies.

² These are the words of the Lord of armies: These people say, The time has not come for building the Lord's house.

³ Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

⁴ Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

¹ And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,

² Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.

¹¹ So that you may take of the comfort flowing from her breasts, and be delighted with the full measure of her glory.

¹³ The glory of Lebanon will come to you, the cypress, the plane, and the sherbin-tree together, to make my holy place beautiful; and the resting-place of my feet will be full of glory.

⁷ All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.

² The Lord has more love for the doors of Zion than for all the tents of Jacob.

³ Noble things are said of you, O town of God. (Selah.)

⁴ With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;

⁷ And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.

¹⁶ For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

⁸ And send me cedar-trees, cypress-trees and sandal-wood from Lebanon, for, to my knowledge, your servants are expert wood-cutters in Lebanon; and my servants will be with yours,

⁹ To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.

¹⁰ And I will give as food to your servants, the wood-cutters, twenty thousand measures of grain, and twenty thousand measures of barley and twenty thousand measures of wine and twenty thousand measures of oil.

³ And the Lord said to him, Your prayers and your requests for grace have come to my ears: I have made holy this house which you have made, and I have put my name there for ever; my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.

⁴³ There I will come face to face with the children of Israel, and the Tent will be made holy by my glory