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A Call to Build the House of the Lord

¹In 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:
²This is what the Lord Almighty says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.’ ”
³Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai: ⁴“Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”
⁵Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to 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 are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”
⁷This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways. ⁸Go 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“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. ¹⁰Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops. ¹¹I 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.”
¹²Then 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.
¹³Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, gave this message of the Lord to the people: “I am with you,” declares the Lord. ¹⁴So 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, ¹⁵on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month.
In the second year of King Darius,

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Tus TSWV Hais Kom Txhim Kho Lub Tuamtsev

¹Thaum Huabtais Dali-us kav lub tebchaws Pawxias tau ob xyoo lawm, lub rau hli ntuj hnub xiab ib, tus TSWV los hais rau Hakais tus uas cev Vajtswv lus. Tus TSWV cov lus, yog hais rau Se-atiyees tus tub Xelunpanpees uas ua tswvxeev kav lub xeev Yudas, thiab hais rau tus Povthawj Hlob Yausuas uas yog Yehauxadas tus tub.
²Tus TSWV uas muaj hwjchim loj hais rau Hakais tias, “Cov neeg sawvdaws hais tias lub sijhawm no tseem tsis tau yog lub caij uas yuav txhim kho lub Tuamtsev.” ³Yog li ntawd, tus TSWV thiaj muab cov lus no rau Hakais tus uas cev Vajtswv lus kom mus hais rau cov neeg sawvdaws hais tias, ⁴“Kuv haivneeg, vim li cas nej twb nyob tej tsev zoo zoo lawm, tiamsis kuv lub Tuamtsev pob puas tas li?” ⁵Nej puas pom tej xwmtxheej uas tabtom yuav los raug nej? ⁶Nej cog qoob ntau, tiamsis nej sau tau tsawg. Nej muaj zaub mov noj, tiamsis tsis tsau. Nej muaj cawv txiv hmab haus, tiamsis tsis qaug. Nej muaj ris tsho hnav, tiamsis tsis sov. Tej neeg uas ua haujlwm tau nyiaj los tsis txaus siv. ⁷Nej puas pom hais tias, yog vim li cas thiaj muaj tej xwmtxheej no los raug nej? ⁸Nej cia li mus pem tej roob thiab txiav ntoo los kho lub Tuamtsev; kuv thiaj yuav txaus siab, thiab neeg thiaj tau chaw tuaj pehawm kuv kom tsimnyog.
⁹“Nej cia siab hais tias yuav sau tau qoobloo ntau, tiamsis nej sau tau tsawg kawg li. Thiab thaum nej coj tej qoobloo los rau hauv tsev, kuv yuav muab tshuab kom ya tas. Vim li cas kuv thiaj ua li ntawd? Rau qhov thaum kuv lub Tuamtsev pob puas tas, nej txhua tus nyias rau siab ntso ua nyias lub tsev nkaus xwb. ¹⁰Twb yog vim li ntawd lub ntuj thiaj tsis muaj nag los, thiab lub ntiajteb tsis pub kom nej tej qoobloo tuaj taus li. ¹¹Kuv tso ntuj qhuav teb nkig los rau lub tebchaws, saum tej roob, tej teb npleg, teb txiv hmab thiab teb txiv ntoo roj, txhua yam qoobloo uas tuaj hauv av, neeg thiab tsiaj txhu, thiab txhua yam uas nej cog ntawd huv tibsi.”

Cov Neeg Mloog Tus TSWV Lus

¹²Xelunpanpees, Yausuas, thiab tagnrho cov neeg uas raug luag ntes mus thiab tau rov qab tim tebchaws Npanpiloos los, tau ua raws li tus TSWV uas yog lawv tus Vajtswv tej lus. Lawv ntshai thiab hwm tus cevlus Hakais uas yog tus TSWV tus tubtxib kawg li. ¹³Hakais thiaj qhia tus TSWV tej lus rau cov pejxeem li no hais tias: “Kuv yuav nrog nraim nej nyob, ntawm no yog kuv tej lus cog tseg rau nej.” ¹⁴Tus TSWV tshoov Xelunpanpees uas yog tus tswvxeev uas kav lub xeev Yudas, Yausuas uas yog tus Povthawj Hlob, thiab tagnrho cov neeg uas raug luag ntes mus thiab tau rov los siab kom lawv txhua tus txhim kho lub Tuamtsev. Lawv thiaj pib txhim kho tus TSWV uas yog lawv tus Vajtswv uas muaj hwjchim loj kawg nkaus lub Tuamtsev, ¹⁵thaum lub rau hli ntuj hnub nees nkaum plaub tom qab uas Dali-us ua huabtais kav lub tebchaws tau ob xyoos lawm.