Haggai 1:2 - Easy To Read Version The Lord All-Powerful says this: “The people say it is not the right time yet to build the Lord’s temple. {\cf2\super [1]} ” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith: The time is not yet come for building the house of the Lord. |
So king Joash called for Jehoiada the priest and the {other} priests. Joash said to Jehoiada and the other priests, “Why haven’t you repaired the temple? Stop taking money from the people you serve. Stop using that money. That money must be used to repair the temple.”
So a copy of the letter that King Artaxerxes sent was read to Rehum, Shimshai the secretary, and the people with them. They went very quickly to the Jews in Jerusalem and forced the Jews to stop building.
And so at that time, the people of Judah said, “The workers are becoming tired. There is too much dirt and trash in the way. We can’t continue to build the wall.
The lazy person says, “I can’t go \{to work\} now. There is a lion outside. It might kill me.”
\{But there are some things that you can’t be sure of. You must take a chance.\} If a person waits for perfect weather, then he will never plant his seeds. And if a person is afraid that every cloud will bring rain, then he will never harvest his crops.
There is a time to kill,\par and a time to heal.\par There is a time to destroy,\par and a time to build.\par
Every time you find work to do, do it the best you can. In the grave there is no work. There is no thinking, no knowledge, and there is no wisdom. And we are all going to that \{place of death\}.
On the first day of the sixth month of Darius’ second year as king \{of Persia\}, Haggai received a message from the Lord. This message was for Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak. Zerubbabel was the governor of Judah and Joshua was the high priest. This is the message:
Again Haggai received a message from the Lord. Haggai spoke this message:
But the men that had gone with him said, “We can’t fight those people! They are much stronger than we are.”