Zerubbabel

"How can we find suitable words to praise Zerubbabel, | who was like a signet ring on the right hand?"

"In that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel My servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says the Lord, ‘and will make you like a signet ring; for I have chosen you,’ says the Lord of hosts.”"

"The hands of Zerubbabel | Have laid the foundation of this temple; | His hands shall also finish it. | Then you will know | That the Lord of hosts has sent Me to you. | For who has despised the day of small things? | For these seven rejoice to see | The plumb line | in the hand of Zerubbabel. | They are the eyes of the Lord, | Which scan to and fro throughout the whole earth."

"Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says the Lord; ‘and be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land,’ says the Lord, ‘and work; for I am with you,’ says the Lord of hosts. ‘According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit remains among you; do not fear!’"

"This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: | ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ | Says the Lord of hosts. | ‘Who are you, O great mountain? | Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain! | And he shall bring forth the capstone | With shouts of “Grace, grace to it!"

"Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the Lord. [...] So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius."