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A Call to Rebuild the Temple
(Ezra 5:1–5)
1In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating 2that this is what the LORD of Hosts says:
“These people say, ‘The time has not yet come
to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”
3Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying:
4“Is it a time for you yourselves
to live in your paneled houses,
while this house lies in ruins?”
5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says:
“Consider carefully your ways.
6You have planted much
but harvested little.
You eat but never have enough.
You drink but never have your fill.
You put on clothes but never get warm.
You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
7This is what the LORD of Hosts says:
“Consider carefully your ways.
8Go up into the hills,
bring down lumber, and build the house,
so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,
says the LORD.
9You expected much,
but behold, it amounted to little.
And what you brought home, I blew away.
Why? declares the LORD of Hosts.
Because My house still lies in ruins,
while each of you is busy
with his own house.
10Therefore, on account of you
the heavens have withheld their dew
and the earth has withheld its crops.
11I have summoned a drought
on the fields and on the mountains,
on the grain, new wine, and oil,
and on whatever the ground yields,
on man and beast,
and on all the labor of your hands.”