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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and to the remnant of the people: |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Doesn't it seem to you like nothing by comparison? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Even so, be strong, Zerubbabel--this is the LORD's declaration. Be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land--this is the LORD's declaration. Work! For I am with you--the declaration of the LORD of Armies. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5This is the promise I made to you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit is present among you; don't be afraid.'" |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6For the LORD of Armies says this: "Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7I will shake all the nations so that the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory," says the LORD of Armies. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8"The silver and gold belong to me"--this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"The final glory of this house will be greater than the first," says the LORD of Armies. "I will provide peace in this place"--this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10On 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"This is what the LORD of Armies says: Ask the priests for a ruling. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12If a man is carrying consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and it touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any other food, does it become holy?" The priests answered, "No." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Then Haggai asked, "If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?" The priests answered, "It becomes defiled." |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Then Haggai replied, "So is this people, and so is this nation before me--this is the LORD's declaration. And so is every work of their hands; even what they offer there is defiled. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Now from this day on, think carefully: Before one stone was placed on another in the LORD's temple, |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16what state were you in? When someone came to a grain heap of twenty measures, it only amounted to ten; when one came to the winepress to dip fifty measures from the vat, it only amounted to twenty. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17I struck you--all the work of your hands--with blight, mildew, and hail, but you didn't turn to me--this is the LORD's declaration. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"From this day on, think carefully; from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid; think carefully. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Is there still seed left in the granary? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet produced. But from this day on I will bless you." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20The word of the LORD came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month: |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21"Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake the heavens and the earth. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the Gentile kingdoms. I will overturn chariots and their riders. Horses and their riders will fall, each by his brother's sword. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23On that day"--this is the declaration of the LORD of Armies--"I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant"--this is the LORD's declaration--"and make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you." This is the declaration of the LORD of Armies. |
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