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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: {2} This is what the LORD Almighty says: "These people
say, 'The time has not yet come for the Lord's house to be built.'"
{3} Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:
{4} "Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled
houses, while this house remains a ruin?" {5} Now this is what
the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways. {6}
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." {7} This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful
thought to your ways. {8} 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. {9} "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. {10} Therefore,
because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its
crops. {11} 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 labour of your hands." {12}
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. {13} Then
Haggai, the Lord's messenger, gave this message of the LORD to the
people: "I am with you," declares the LORD. {14} 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, {15} on the
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Haggai
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On
the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came
through the prophet Haggai: {2} "Speak to Zerubbabel son of
Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high
priest, and to the remnant of the people. Ask them, {3} 'Who of
you is left who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to
you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing? {4} But now be
strong, O Zerubbabel,' declares the LORD. 'Be strong, O Joshua son of
Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,'
declares the LORD, 'and work. For I am with you,' declares the LORD
Almighty. {5} 'This is what I covenanted with you when you came
out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.' {6}
"This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'In a little while I will once
more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. {7}
I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations will come,
and I will fill this house with glory,' says the LORD Almighty. {8}
'The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares the LORD
Almighty. {9} 'The glory of this present house will be greater
than the glory of the former house,' says the LORD Almighty. 'And in
this place I will grant peace,' declares the LORD Almighty." {10}
On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of
Darius, the word of the LORD came to the prophet Haggai: {11}
"This is what the LORD Almighty says: 'Ask the priests what the law
says: {12} If a person carries consecrated meat in the fold of
his garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, oil or
other food, does it become consecrated?'" The priests answered, "No."
{13} Then Haggai said, "If a person defiled by contact with a dead
body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?" "Yes," the
priests replied, "it becomes defiled." {14} Then Haggai said,
"'So it is with this people and this nation in my sight,' declares the
LORD. 'Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled.
{15} "'Now give careful thought to this from this day on --consider
how things were before one stone was laid on another in the Lord's
temple. {16} When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there
were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures,
there were only twenty. {17} I struck all the work of your hands
with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not turn to me,' declares the
LORD. {18} 'From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the
ninth month, give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the
Lord's temple was laid. Give careful thought: {19} Is there yet
any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the
pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. "'From this day on
I will bless you.'" {20} The word of the LORD came to Haggai a
second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month: {21} "Tell
Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I will shake the heavens and the
earth. {22} I will overturn royal thrones and shatter the power
of the foreign kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers;
horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.
{23} "'On that day,' declares the LORD Almighty, 'I will take you,
my servant Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,' declares the LORD, 'and I will
make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you,' declares the LORD
Almighty." |
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