Let your hands be strong] Hag. 2. 4. Let neither respect of your private commodities, neither counsell of others, nor feare of enemies discourage you in the going forward with the building of the Temple. these words by the mouth] Promises and exhortations. prophets] Haggai and Zechariah, who at this time prophecied to the Jews. in the day that the foundation] What that day was, we have it related, Ezra 3:8.