¹³ Then Haggai,^(A) the Lord’s messenger,^(B) gave this message of the Lord to the people: “I am with^(C) you,” declares the Lord.

⁹ This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Now hear these words, ‘Let your hands be strong^(A) so that the temple may be built.’ This is also what the prophets^(B) said who were present when the foundation^(C) was laid for the house of the Lord Almighty.