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\id HAG - Translation 4 Translators 1
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\mt1 Haggai
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\c 1
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\s1 A call to rebuild the temple
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\p
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\v 1 I, Haggai, a prophet, received a message from Yahweh on August 29th, during the second year that Darius was the king \add of Persia\add*. I told this message to Shealtiel's son Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, and to Jehozadak's son Jeshua, the Supreme Priest.
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\p
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\v 2 Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of heaven, told me that the people were saying that it was not yet time for them to rebuild Yahweh's temple.
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\p
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\v 3 Then Yahweh gave me this message to tell \add to the people of Jerusalem\add*:
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\v 4 “It is not right [RHQ] for you to be living in luxurious houses while my temple is only ruins!
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\v 5 I, Yahweh, the Commander of the armies of heaven, say this: Think about what is happening to you.
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\v 6 You have planted a lot \add of seeds\add*, but you are not getting many crops to harvest. You eat food, but you never get enough. You drink \add wine\add*, but you are still thirsty. You wear clothes, but you do not stay warm. You earn money, but \add things are very expensive\add*, with the result that \add it is as though\add* [MET] you are putting your money in purses/pockets that have big holes in them.”
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\p
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\v 7 So this is what Yahweh the Commander of the armies of heaven says: “Think about what is happening to you.
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\v 8 Then go up into the hills, \add cut down trees\add*, and bring timber down here, and rebuild my temple. When you do that, I will be pleased, and I will appear there with my glory.
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\v 9 You expected \add to harvest\add* plenty \add of crops\add*, but there were few \add crops to harvest\add*. And when you brought the crops home, I caused them to ◄be eaten/spoil► [IDI] quickly. The reason \add that happened is that\add* my temple is a ruins, while each of you are busy building your own \add beautiful\add* houses.
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\v 10 It is because of what you \add are doing\add* that rain does not fall from the sky, and as a result there are no crops.
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\v 11 I have caused a ◄drought/severe lack of rain► on the hills and on your fields. The result has been that your grain \add has withered\add*, and your grapevines [MTY] and olive trees [MTY] and all your other crops have dried up. \add Because of that\add*, you and your cattle \add do not have enough food\add*, and the hard work that you have done will be for nothing.”
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\p
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\v 12 Then Zerubbabel and Jeshua and all the others of God's people who were still alive obeyed the message that Yahweh our God had said, and they heeded the message that I had given them, because \add they knew that\add* Yahweh our God had sent/appointed me. And the people respected/revered Yahweh.
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\p
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\v 13 Then I, Haggai, who was Yahweh's messenger, gave this message from Yahweh to the people: “I, Yahweh, declare that I am with you.”
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\v 14 So Yahweh motivated Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the other people \add to want to rebuild the temple\add* of our God, the Almighty Commander of the armies of angels. They gathered together and started to work to rebuild it.
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\v 15 They started work on September 21st, during the second year that Darius was the king.
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\c 2
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\s1 The new temple
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\p
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\v 1 On October 17 \add of that year\add*, Yahweh gave the prophet Haggai \add another\add* message.
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\v 2 The message was that he should say this to Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and to the other people who were still alive \add in Jerusalem\add*:
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\v 3 “Do any of you remember how glorious our former temple was? \add If you do\add*, what does it look like to you now? It must seem like nothing at all.
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\v 4 But now the Almighty Commander of the armies of angels says to \add all of you\add*, to Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of you people who live in this nation, ‘\add Do not be discouraged\add*; be strong [DOU], and work \add to build this new temple\add*, because I will ◄be with/help► you.
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\v 5 My Spirit remains among you, like I promised your \add ancestors\add* when they left Egypt. So do not be afraid!’”
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\p
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\v 6 This is what the Almighty Commander of the armies of angels says: “Soon I will shake again the sky and the earth, the oceans and the earth.
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\v 7 I will shake again the people of all the nations, and as a result they will bring their treasures to this temple. I will fill this temple with my glory.
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\v 8 The silver and the gold \add that they own\add* is really mine, \add so they will bring it to me\add*.
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\v 9 Then this temple will be more glorious than the former/previous temple was. And I will cause things to go well for you all. \add That will surely happen because\add* I, the Almighty Commander of the armies of angels, have said it.”
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\s1 What they do now will be acceptable to Yahweh
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\p
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\v 10 On December 18 of that year, Yahweh gave \add another\add* message to the prophet Haggai.
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\v 11 This is what the Almighty Commander of the armies of angels said to him: “Ask the priests \add this question\add* about what is written in the laws \add of Moses about sacrifices\add*:
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\v 12 ‘If one of you \add priests takes from the altar\add* some meat that was sacrificed and is carrying it in his robes, if his robe touches some bread or stew or wine or \add olive\add* oil or some other food, does that food also become ◄holy/acceptable for a sacrifice►?’”
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\p \add When he said that to\add* the priests, they replied, “No.”
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\p
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\v 13 Then Haggai asked them, “If someone becomes unacceptable to God by touching a corpse, and then he touches any of those foods, will the food also become unacceptable to God?”
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\p The priests replied, “Yes.”
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\p
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\v 14 Then Haggai replied, “Yahweh says this: ‘It is the same with you people and with this nation. Everything that you do and \add all the sacrifices\add* that you all offer are unacceptable to me \add because of the sins that you have committed\add*.
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\p
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\v 15 Think about what has been happening to you before you began to lay the foundation of my temple.
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\v 16 When you expected \add to harvest\add* twenty bushels of grain, \add you harvested\add* only ten bushels. When someone went to a big wine vat to get fifty gallons of wine, there were only twenty gallons in the vat.
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\v 17 I sent ◄blight/hot winds► and mildew and hail to destroy all your crops. But still you did not return to me.
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\p
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\v 18 Starting from this day, December 18, the day when you have laid the foundation of my new temple, continue to think carefully about your situation.
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\v 19 Is there now [RHQ] any grain seed left in your barns? No, \add because you have eaten the small amount that you harvested\add*. And there is no fruit on your grapevines and fig trees and pomegranate trees and olive trees.
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\p But, from now on, I will bless you!’”
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\s1 Yahweh's promise to Zerubbabel
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\p
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\v 20 On that same day, Yahweh gave another message to me.
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\v 21 He said, “Tell Zerubbabel the governor of Judah that I am going to shake the sky and the earth.
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\v 22 I will end the power of the kings of many nations [DOU]. I will cause their chariots and their drivers, their horses and \add the soldiers\add* who are riding on them to be destroyed. \add What will happen is that I will cause the soldiers\add* to kill each other with their swords.
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\p
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\v 23 Zerubbabel, you serve \add me well\add*. So I, the Almighty Commander of the armies of angels, declare that \add like kings wear\add* signet rings \add to show that they have authority to rule people\add*, I will appoint you and cause you \add to have authority to rule\add*. I will do that because I have chosen you. \add That will surely happen because\add* I, the Almighty Commander of the armies of angels, have said it.”
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