Quotes about Foundation

When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed.

And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.

But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.

So this Sheshbazzar came and laid the foundation of the house of God in Jerusalem, and from that time until now it has been under construction, but it has not yet been completed.”

In the first year of King Cyrus, he issued a decree concerning the house of God in Jerusalem: Let the house be rebuilt as a place for offering sacrifices, and let its foundations be firmly laid. It is to be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide,

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.

If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,

You who tear yourself in anger—should the earth be forsaken on your account, or the rocks be moved from their place?

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

On what were its foundations set, or who laid its cornerstone,

You broaden the path beneath me so that my ankles do not give way.