Haggai 1:2 - Y'all Version Bible “This is what YHWH of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time has not yet come, the time to rebuild the house of YHWH.’” 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. |
Then King Joash called for Jehoiada the priest, and for the other priests, and said to them, “Why aren’t y’all repairing the damage to the house? Now, y’all are to take no more money from your* treasurers, except to give* it for repair of the damage to the house.”
Then when the copy of King Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews, and made them to cease by force of arms.
Judah said, “The strength of the bearers of burdens is fading and there is much rubble, so that we are not able to build the wall.”
The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I will be killed in the streets!”
The fear of people becomes a trap, but whoever puts his trust in YHWH is kept safe.
The one who observes the wind won’t sow; and the one who regards the clouds won’t reap.
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of YHWH came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying:
But the men who went up with him said, “We aren’t able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.”