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HAGGAI
- From before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:
- Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten:
- When one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
- I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail
- In all the labours of your hands;
- Yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.
- Consider now from this day and upward,
- From the four and twentieth day of the ninth month,
- Even from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, consider it.
- Is the seed yet in the barn?
- Yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth:
- From this day will I bless you.
And again the word of the Lord came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, Speak to Zerubbabei, governor of Judah, saying,
- I will shake the heavens and the earth;
- And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms,
- And I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen;
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