And when this people or a prophet or a priest asks you, “What is the burden of the Lord?” you shall answer, “You are the burden, and I cast you off”—oracle of the Lord.
On the first day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king, the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, and to the high priest Joshua, son of Jehozadak:
An oracle: The word of the Lord concerning Israel—oracle of the Lord, who spreads out the heavens, lays the foundations of the earth, and fashions the human spirit within:
An oracle: the word of the Lord is against the land of Hadrach, and Damascus is its destination, For the cities of Aram are the Lord’s, as are all the tribes of Israel.
Judah has broken faith; an abominable thing has been done in Israel and in Jerusalem. Judah has profaned the Lord’s holy place, which he loves, and has married a daughter of a foreign god.