‘Who is there left among you who saw this House in its former esteem? And how do you see it now? Is it not in your eyes as naught when compared to it?
And Dawiḏ
And they responded by praising and giving thanks to יהוה, “For He is good, for His kindness towards Yisra’ĕ
And many of the priests and Lĕ
Your set-apart cities has become a wilderness, Tsiyon has become a wilderness, Yerushalayim a waste.
‘And the splendour of His ornaments, He set it in excellency. But they made from it the images of their abominations and their disgusting matters. Therefore I shall make it like filth to them.
‘Let the esteem of this latter House be greater than the former,’ said יהוה of hosts. ‘And in this place I give peace,’ declares יהוה of hosts.”