Haggai
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- In the second year of King Darius, on the
first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet
Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua
son of Jehozadak, the high priest:
- This is what the LORD Almighty says: "These
people say, 'The time has not yet come for the LORD'S house to be built.'"
- Then the word of the LORD came through
the prophet Haggai:
- "Is it a time for you yourselves to
be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin ?"
- Now this is what the LORD Almighty says:
"Give careful thought to your ways.
- You have planted much, but have harvested
little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill.
You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in
a purse with holes in it."
- This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give
careful thought to your ways.
- Go up into the mountains and bring down
timber and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,"
says the LORD.
- "You expected much, but see, it turned
out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares
the LORD Almighty. "Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while
each of you is busy with his own house.
- Therefore, because of you the heavens have
withheld their dew and the earth its crops.
- I called for a drought on the fields and
the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the oil and whatever the ground
produces, on men and cattle, and on the labor of your hands."
- Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua
son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed
the voice of the LORD their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because
the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.
- Then Haggai, the LORD'S messenger, gave
this message of the LORD to the people: "I am with you," declares
the LORD.
- So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel
son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak,
the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They
came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God,
- on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month
in the second year of King Darius.
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