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| 1On the first day of the sixth month of the second year of the reign of King Darius, this message from the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Shealtiel's son Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, and to Jehozadak's son Joshua, the high priest: | 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: |
| 2"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: 'These people keep saying, "No, the right time for rebuilding the LORD's Temple has not yet come."'" | 2“Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.” |
| 3Then this message from the LORD came by Haggai the prophet: | 3Then the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, |
| 4"Is it the right time for all of you to live in your own paneled houses while this house remains in ruins?" | 4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? |
| 5"Now this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, says: 'Carefully consider your ways: | 5Now, therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. |
| 6You have sowed much but have reaped little. You have eaten but don't have enough to become satisfied. You have drunk but don't have enough to become intoxicated. You have clothed yourself but don't have enough to keep warm. And the hired laborer deposits his salary in a bag full of holes!'" | 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. |
| 7"This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: 'Carefully consider your ways: | 7“Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. |
| 8Go up into the mountains, bring timber, and reconstruct my house. Then I will be pleased with it and I will be honored,' says the LORD. | 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. |
| 9You turned away in pursuit of abundance, but look at how little you found! What you did manage to bring home, I blew away! And why?' declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. 'It's because of my house! It lies in ruins while each of you runs off to his own house! | 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. |
| 10That is why the heavens keep withholding dew from you, and the earth withholds her fruit. | 10Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. |
| 11I sent a drought on the land, on the mountains, on your grain, on your new wines, on your oil—on everything the ground produces—on men, on livestock, and on everything you do! '" | 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.” |
| 12Then Shealtiel's son Zerubbabel, Jehozadak's son Joshua the high priest, and all the rest of the people obeyed the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD. | 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. |
| 13Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with a special commission from the LORD: "'I am with you,' declares 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.” |
| 14Then the LORD revitalized the spirit of Shealtiel's son Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, the spirit of Jehozadak's son Joshua the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people, so they came and began to work on the house of their God, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. | 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, |
| 15This took place on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of the second year of the reign of King Darius. | 15on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. |
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