Zechariah 4:7 → Psalm 118:22

Zechariah 4:7 describes Zerubbabel bringing forth "the capstone" (הָאֶבֶן הָרֹאשָׁה, ha'even haroshshah, literally "the head/top stone") accompanied by shouts of "Grace, grace to it!" Psalm 118:22 celebrates "the stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone" (לְרֹאשׁ פִּנָּה, lerosh pinnah, literally 'head of the corner'). Both texts feature a significant stone designated as "head/chief" (רֹאשׁ, rosh) that completes a building project amid acclamation. Zechariah's capstone crowns the temple rebuilding, while Psalm 118's cornerstone emerges from rejection to prominence. The shared stone-and-acclamation imagery connects temple completion with vindication, suggesting that God's building projects advance through apparent weakness ("not by might nor by power," 4:6) to triumphant completion. The Second Temple's humble scale seemed contemptible to those who still remembered Solomon's, making the capstone's arrival — like the Psalm's once-rejected stone — a vindication achieved through apparent insignificance rather than grandeur.