The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

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Haggai 1:5 (NIV)

Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Give careful thought to your ways.

 

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Haggai 1:6 (NIV)

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.’

 

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Haggai 1:7 (NIV)

7 This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Give careful thought to your ways.

 

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Haggai 1:8 (NIV)

8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honoured,’
says the Lord.

 

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Haggai 1:9 (NIV)

9 ‘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.

 

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Haggai 1:10 (NIV)

10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.

 

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Haggai 1:11 (NIV)

11 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 labour of your hands.’

 

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Haggai 1:12 (NIV)

12 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.

 

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Haggai 1:13 (NIV)

13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, gave this message of the Lord to the people: ‘I am with you,’ declares the Lord.

 

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Haggai 1:14 (NIV)

14 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,

 

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Haggai 1:15 (NIV)

15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius,

 

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Haggai 2:1 (CSB)

On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai:

 

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Haggai 2:2 (CSB)

2 “Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and to the remnant of the people:

 

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Haggai 2:3 (CSB)

3 ‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Doesn’t it seem to you like nothing
by comparison?

 

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Haggai 2:4 (CSB)

4 Even so, be strong, Zerubbabel—this is the Lord’s declaration. Be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land—this is the Lord’s declaration. Work! For I am with you—the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

 

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Haggai 2:5 (CSB)

5 This is the promise I made to you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit is present among you; don’t be afraid.’”

 

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Haggai 2:6 (CSB)

6 For the Lord of Armies says this: “Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.

 

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Haggai 2:7 (CSB)

7 I will shake all the nations so that the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,”
says the Lord of Armies.

 

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Haggai 2:8 (CSB)

8 “The silver and gold belong to me”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

 

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Haggai 2:9 (CSB)

9 “The final glory of this house will be greater than the first,” says the Lord of Armies. “I will provide peace in this place”—
this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.