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| 1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: | 1On August 29 of the second year of King Darius’s reign, the LORD gave a message through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. |
| 2“Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.” | 2“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: The people are saying, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’” |
| 3Then the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, | 3Then the LORD sent this message through the prophet Haggai: |
| 4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? | 4“Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins? |
| 5Now, therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. | 5This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you! |
| 6You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. | 6You have planted much but harvest little. You eat but are not satisfied. You drink but are still thirsty. You put on clothes but cannot keep warm. Your wages disappear as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes! |
| 7“Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. | 7“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you! |
| 8Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD. | 8Now go up into the hills, bring down timber, and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the LORD. |
| 9You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. | 9You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, while all of you are busy building your own fine houses. |
| 10Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. | 10It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops. |
| 11And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.” | 11I have called for a drought on your fields and hills—a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.” Obedience to God’s Call |
| 12Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice 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. | 12Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of God’s people began to obey the message from the LORD their God. When they heard the words of the prophet Haggai, whom the LORD their God had sent, the people feared the LORD. |
| 13Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD’s message, “I am with you, declares the LORD.” | 13Then Haggai, the LORD’s messenger, gave the people this message from the LORD: “I am with you, says the LORD!” |
| 14And the LORD 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 the LORD of hosts, their God, | 14So the LORD sparked the enthusiasm of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the enthusiasm of Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the enthusiasm of the whole remnant of God’s people. They began to work on the house of their God, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, |
| 15on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. | 15on September 21 of the second year of King Darius’s reign. |
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