^{4 Ref} Whose purpose and work was it? His who sent out the generations from the start. I the Lord, the first, and with the last, I am he.

^{5 Ref} The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.

^{6 Ref} They gave help everyone to his neighbour; and everyone said to his brother, Take heart!

^{7 Ref} So the metal-worker put heart into the gold-worker, and he who was hammering the metal smooth said kind words to the iron-worker, saying of the plate, It is ready: and he put it together with nails, so that there might be no slipping.