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"Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘Let your hands be ^(l)strong, you who are listening in these days to these words from the mouth of the ^(m)prophets, those who spoke in the day that the foundation of the house of the Lord of hosts was laid, to the end that the temple might be built.

For before those days there was ⁽ⁿ⁾no wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no ^[j](o)peace because of ^[k]his enemies, and I ^(p)set all men one against another.

But now I will ^(q)not ^[l]treat the remnant of this people as in the former days,' declares the Lord of hosts.

‘For there will be ^(r)peace for the seed: the vine will yield its fruit, the land will yield its produce and the heavens will give their ^(s)dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to inherit ^(t)all these things.