Haggai 1:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say, The time is not yet come that the Lord's house should be rebuilt [although Cyrus had ordered it done eighteen years before]. [Ezra 1:1-6; 4:1-6, 24; 5:1-3.]

American Standard Version (1901)

² Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time for us to come, the time for Jehovah’s house to be built.

Common English Bible

² This is what the LORD of heavenly forces says: These people say, “The time hasn’t come, the time to rebuild the LORD’s house.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: This people claims that the time has not yet arrived for building the house of the Lord.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith: The time is not yet come for building the house of the Lord.

Haggai 1:2 Cross References

2 Kings 12:7

Therefore King Jehoash summoned the priest Jehoiada with the other priests and said to them, “Why are you not repairing the house? Now therefore do not accept any more silver from your donors but hand it over for the repair of the house.”

Ezra 4:23

Then when the copy of King Artaxerxes’s letter was read before Rehum and the scribe Shimshai and their associates, they hurried to the Jews in Jerusalem and by force and power made them cease.

Nehemiah 4:10

But Judah said, “The strength of the burden bearers is failing, and there is too much rubbish so that we are unable to work on the wall.”

Proverbs 22:13

The lazy person says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”

Proverbs 29:25

The fear of others lays a snare, but one who trusts in the Lord is secure.

Ecclesiastes 11:4

Whoever observes the wind will not sow, and whoever regards the clouds will not reap.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

a time to kill and a time to heal; a time to break down and a time to build up;

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hand finds to do, do with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

Haggai 1:1

In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest:

Haggai 1:3

Then the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai, saying:

Numbers 13:31

Then the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against this people, for they are stronger than we.”