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Haggai 2:15

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

But from now on, things will get better. Before you started laying the foundation for the temple,

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Think about what I have said!

The Jews were forced to stop work on the temple and were not able to do any more building until the year after Darius became king of Persia.

When the builders had finished laying the foundation of the temple, the priests put on their robes and blew trumpets in honour of the LORD, while the Levites from the family of Asaph praised God with cymbals. All of them followed the instructions given years before by King David.

Today you have completed the foundation for my temple, so listen to what your future will be like.

If we carefully judge ourselves, we won't be punished.

But what good did you receive from the things you did? All you have to show for them is your shame, and they lead to death.

If you are wise, you will know and understand what I mean. I am the LORD, and I lead you along the right path. If you obey me, we will walk together, but if you are wicked, you will stumble.

At your drinking parties you have the music of stringed instruments, tambourines, and flutes. But you never even think about all the LORD has done,

Be wise! Remember this and think about the kindness of the LORD.

you recalled what life was like in the past. When you wanted two hundred kilogrammes of wheat, there were only a hundred, and when you wanted fifty jars of wine, there were only twenty.

Before that time, neither people nor animals were rewarded for their work, and no one was safe anywhere, because I had turned them against each other.

My people, only a few of you are left, and I promise not to punish you as I did before.




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