Ezr 3:11-12, Zec 4:7 | ESV | STEP | And they sang responsively , praising and giving thanks to the Lord , For he is good , for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel . And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord , because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.

d[See ver. 6 above]

Ezra 3:11-12

11 And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the Lord,

^a“For he is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.”
And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. 12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, ^bold 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,

Zechariah 4:7

7 Who are you, ^cO great mountain? Before ^dZerubbabel ^eyou shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward ^fthe top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”