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Chaggai - Haggai - Chapter 1
Chapter 1
| 1. In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to Haggai, the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak the High Priest, saying: |
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| 2. So said the Lord of Hosts, saying: This people has said, "The time has not come-the time for the house of the Lord to be built." |
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| 3. And the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet, saying: |
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| 4. Is it [an appropriate] time for you yourselves to sit in your ceiled houses, when this house is in ruins? |
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| 5. And now, so said the Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways. |
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| 6. You have sown much and you bring in little. You eat without being satiated. You drink without getting your fill. You dress, and it has no warmth. And he who profits, profits into a bundle with holes. |
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| 7. So said the Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways. |
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| 8. Ascend the mountain, bring wood, and build the house-and I will accept it, and I will be honored, said the Lord. |
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| 9. You looked for much, and behold, it became little. And you brought it home, and I will blow into it. Because of what? says the Lord of Hosts, Because of My house that is lying in ruins. Yet you run, each to his house. |
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| 10. Therefore because of you the heavens have kept back, so that there is no dew, and the earth has kept back its produce. |
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| 11. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon everything that the ground will bring forth-and upon man, and upon beast, and upon all the labor of their hands. |
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| 12. And Zerubbabel the son of Shaltiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak the High Priest, and all the remnant of the people heeded the command of the Lord their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him, and the people feared the Lord. |
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| 13. And Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, said in [fulfilling] the Lord's mission to the people, saying: I am with you, says the Lord. |
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| 14. And the Lord inspired the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shaltiel, the 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 performed labor in the house of the Lord of Hosts, their God |
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| 15. on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth [month], in the second year of King Darius. |
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