many: Haggai 2:3
when the foundation: Job 8:7; Isaiah 41:14, Isaiah 60:22; Daniel 2:34-35; Zechariah 4:10; Matthew 13:31-32
wept: Psalms 126:6; Jeremiah 31:8-9
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Ezra 3:12
Ezra 3:12
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