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In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of YAHUVEH by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

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Thus speaketh YAHUVEH of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time for us to come, the time for YAHUVEH's house to be built.

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Then came the word of YAHUVEH by Haggai the prophet, saying,

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Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?

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Now therefore thus saith YAHUVEH of hosts: Consider your ways.

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Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

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Thus saith YAHUVEH of hosts: Consider your ways.

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Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith YAHUVEH.

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Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith YAHUVEH of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.

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Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.

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And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.

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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 YAHUVEH their YAHUVEH, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as YAHUVEH their YAHUVEH had sent him; and the people did fear before YAHUVEH.

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Then spake Haggai YAHUVEH's messenger in YAHUVEH's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith YAHUVEH.

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And YAHUVEH 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 did work on the house of YAHUVEH of hosts, their YAHUVEH,

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in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.