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1 [ 2:2] In the seventh month, on the twenty-first [day] of the month, the Lord spoke by Haggai the prophet, saying,
2 [ 2:3] Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, saying,
3 [ 2:4] Who is [there] of you that saw this house in her former glory? And how do you now look upon it, as it were nothing before your eyes?
4 [ 2:5] Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says the Lord; and strengthen yourself, O Joshua the high priest, the son of Jehozadak; and let all the people of the land strengthen themselves, says the Lord, and work, for I am with you, say the Lord Almighty;
5 [ 2:6] and My Spirit remains in the midst of you; be of good courage.
6 [ 2:7] For thus says the Lord Almighty; Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land];
7 [ 2:8] and I will shake all nations, and the choice [portions] of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord Almighty.
8 [ 2:9] Mine is the silver, and Mine the gold, says the Lord Almighty.
9 [ 2:10] For the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, says the Lord Almighty: and in this place will I give peace, says the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for a possession to everyone that builds, to raise up this temple.
10 [ 2:11] On the twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying,
11 [ 2:12] Thus says the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priest [concerning] the law, saying,
12 [ 2:13] If a man should take holy meat in the fold of his garment, and the fold of his garment should touch bread, or stew, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
13 [ 2:14] And Haggai said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled.
14 [ 2:15] And Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, says the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall approach them, shall be defiled because of their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and you have hated him that reproved in the gates.
15 [ 2:16] And now consider from this day forward, before they laid a stone upon a stone in the temple of the Lord, what manner of men you were.
16 [ 2:17] When you cast into the grain bin twenty measures of barley, and there were [only] ten measures of barley: and you went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were [but] twenty.
17 [ 2:18] I struck you with blight and with mildew, and all the works of your hands with hail; yet you returned not to Me, says the Lord.
18 [ 2:19] Set your hearts now [to think] from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth [day] of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid;
19 [ 2:20] consider in your hearts, whether [this] shall be known on the grain floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive trees that bear no fruit [are with you]: from this day will I bless [you].
20 [ 2:21] And the word of the Lord came the second time to Haggai the prophet, on the twenty-fourth [day] of the month, saying,
21 [ 2:22] Speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, of the tribe of Judah, saying, I shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry [land];
22 [ 2:23] and I will overthrow the thrones of kings, and I will destroy the power of the kings of the nations; and I will overthrow chariots and riders; and the horses and their riders shall come down, everyone by the sword striving against his brother.
23 [ 2:24] In that day, says the Lord Almighty, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, My servant, says the Lord, and will make you as a seal: for I have chosen you, says the Lord Almighty.
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