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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 the LORD by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah , and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
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Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts , saying, This people say , The time is not come , the time that the LORD 'S house should be built .
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Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet , saying,
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Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses , and this house lie waste?
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Now therefore thus saith the LORD 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 yourselves, 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 the LORD 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 the LORD .
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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 the LORD of hosts . Because of my house that is waste, and ye run every man to his own house .
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Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew , and the earth is stayed from her fruit .
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And I called for a drouth upon the land , and upon the mountains , and upon the corn , 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 Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed 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 did fear before the LORD .
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Then spoke Haggai the LORD 'S messenger in the LORD 'S message to the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD .
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And the LORD stirred 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 performed work in the house of the LORD of hosts , their God ,
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In the four and twentieth day of the same month , in the second year of Darius the king.