^3 (A)‘Who is left among you who saw this house ^(B)in its former glory? How do you see it now? ^(C)Is it not as nothing in your eyes?

¹² But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' houses, ^(A)old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy,

Jesus Foretells Destruction of the Temple

^5 (A)And while some were speaking of the temple, how it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he said, ⁶ “As for these things that you see, ^(B)the days will come when there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

^9 (A)“The hands of ^(B)Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also ^(C)complete it. ^(D)Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. ^10 (E)For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see ^(F)the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel.

^(G)“These seven ^(H)are the eyes of the Lord, ^(I)which range through the whole earth.”

^9 (A)The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And ^(B)in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.’”

^20 (A)His beautiful ornament they used for pride, and ^(B)they made their abominable images and their detestable things of it. Therefore ^(C)I make it an unclean thing to them.