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          DASV: Haggai 1

1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month,
in the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by 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 hosts, says, "These people say, 'It
is not yet time for the LORD's house to be rebuilt.'"

3 Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 "Is it the right time for you yourselves to live in
extravagant paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?"
5 Now therefore this is what the LORD of hosts says:
     "Consider your ways.
6 You have sown much,
            and harvested little;
     you eat,
            but do not have enough;
     you drink,
            but you are not satisfied;
     you put on clothes,
            but cannot stay warm;
     and he who earns wages
           earns wages only to put them into a bag with holes."

7 This is what the LORD of hosts says: "Consider your ways.
8 Go up to the hills, and bring back wood, and build the house.
Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored," says the LORD.
9 "You expected much, but it came to little, and when you brought
it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the LORD of hosts. "Because
my house lies in ruins, while you hurry off, each one to
your own house.
10 Therefore for your sake the heavens have withheld the dew,
and the earth has withheld its produce.
11 I called for a drought on the land and the hills, and on the
grain, the new wine, and the olive oil, and on that which the
ground produces. It will also have impact on humans, and on
livestock, and on all the work of your hands."
12 Then 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. They listened to the
words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him,
and the people feared the LORD.

13 Then Haggai, the LORD's messenger, spoke the LORD's message to
the people, saying, "I am with you," says the LORD.
14 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.
They came and did work on the house of the LORD of hosts,
their God,
15 in the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, of the second
year of King Darius.
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