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Haggai 2:17 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the LORD. "

Haggai 2:17

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15 Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the LORD’s temple.

16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the LORD.

18 ‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.

19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”

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Haggai 2:1

"In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month, the LORD’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,"

Haggai 2:2

"“Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,"

Haggai 2:3

"‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?"

Haggai 2:4

"Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says the LORD. ‘Be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says the LORD, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says the LORD of Armies."

Haggai 2:5

"This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’"

Haggai 2:6

"For this is what the LORD of Armies says: ‘Yet once more, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;"

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