Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by <em>the</em> hand of Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
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In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest:
2 Thus speaketh the LORD of the hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not yet come, the time to build the house of the LORD.
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This is what the LORD Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the LORD’s house.’ ”
3 Then came the word of the LORD by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,
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Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:
4 Do you have time, all of you, to dwell in your panelled houses, and this house <em>is</em> deserted?
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“Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
5 Now therefore thus hath the LORD of the hosts said; Consider your ways.
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Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.
6 Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye are not filled; ye drink, but ye are not satisfied; ye clothe yourselves, but you are not warm; and he that is a hireling receives his wages in a bag with holes.
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You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”
7 Thus hath the LORD of the hosts said, Consider your ways.
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This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house; and I will place my will in her, and I will be glorified, said the LORD.
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Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the LORD.
9 Ye look for much and find little; and <em>when</em> ye lock it up at home, I shall blow upon it. Why? said the LORD of the hosts. Because my house is deserted, and ye run each one of you unto his <em>own</em> house.
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“You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the LORD Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.
10 Therefore the rain of the heavens over you is held back, and the earth has held back her fruits.
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Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.
11 And I called for a drought upon this land and upon the mountains and upon the wheat and upon the wine and upon the oil and upon <em>that</em> which the earth brings forth and upon the men, and upon the beasts and upon every labour of hands.
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I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”
12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, heard 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 before the LORD.
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Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.
13 Then spoke Haggai the ambassador of the LORD in the embassy of the LORD unto the people, saying, I <em>am</em> with you, said the LORD.
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Then Haggai, the LORD’s messenger, gave this message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD.
14 And the LORD woke up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked in the house of the LORD of the hosts, their God,
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So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God,
15 in the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
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on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius,
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