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HAGGAI chapter
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1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the
sixth month, on the first day of the month, Jehovah’s word came by Haggai, the
prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua,
the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2 “This is what Jehovah of
Armies says: ‘These people say, “The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Jehovah’s
house to be built.”’”
3 Then Jehovah’s word came by Haggai, the
prophet, saying, 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your
paneled houses, while this house lies waste? 5 Now therefore this is what Jehovah
of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways. 6 You have sown much, and bring in
little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled
with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages
earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’”
7 This is what Jehovah of Armies says: “Consider
your ways. 8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I
will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Jehovah. 9 “You
looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home,
I blew it away. Why?” says Jehovah of Armies, “Because of my house that lies
waste, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10 Therefore for your
sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. 11 I
called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new
wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and
on all the labor of the hands.”
12 Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and
Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the
people, obeyed Jehovah their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet,
as Jehovah their God, had sent him; and the people feared Jehovah.
13 Then Haggai, Jehovah’s messenger, spoke Jehovah’s
message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Jehovah.
14 Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel,
the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of
Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people;
and they came and worked on the house of Jehovah of Armies, their God, 15 on
the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of
Darius the king.
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