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Haggai then said, So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, says the Lord; and so with every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.
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But now, consider what will come to pass from this day on. Before a stone was placed upon a stone in the Lord's temple,
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how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.
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I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and mildew and hail; yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.
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Consider from this day on, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, consider:
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Is there any seed left in the barn? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still yield nothing? From this day on I will bless you.
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The word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month:
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Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,
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and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms; I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders; and the horses and their riders shall fall, every one by the sword of a comrade.
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On that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, son of Shealtiel, says the Lord, and make you like a signet ring; for I have chosen you, says the Lord of hosts.