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14 Then Haggai replied, “So is this people, and so is this nation before me—this is the Lord’s declaration.
And so is every work of their hands; even what they offer there is defiled.
16 what state were you in? When someone came to a grain heap of twenty measures, it only amounted to ten;
when one came to the winepress to dip fifty measures from the vat, it only amounted to twenty.
18 From this day on, think carefully; from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid; think carefully.
19 Is there still seed left in the granary? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet produced.
But from this day on I will bless you.”
22 I will overturn royal thrones and destroy the power of the Gentile kingdoms. I will overturn chariots and their riders.
Horses and their riders will fall, each by his brother’s sword.
23 On that day”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies—“I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—“and make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you.”
Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.
6 But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, didn’t they overtake your fathers?
“Then they repented and said, ‘Just as Yahweh of Armies determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices,
so he has dealt with us.’”