Chaggai 1:2-9 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

2. Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: This people say, The time is not come, the time that Beis Hashem should be built.

3. Then came the Devar Hashem by Chaggai HaNavi, saying,

4. Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your paneled batim, and this Beis [HaMikdash] lie in ruins?

5. Now therefore thus saith Hashem Tzva'os; Consider your ways.

6. Ye have sown harbeh (much), and bring in me'at (little); ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is no warming; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put them into a purse of holes.

7. Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: Consider your ways.

8. Go up to the har (mountain), and bring etz, and build HaBeis [HaMikdash]; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Hashem.

9. Ye looked for harbeh (much), and, hinei, it came to me'at (little); and when ye brought it home, I blew it away. Why? saith Hashem Tva'os. Because of Mine Beis [HaMikdash] that is in ruins, and ye run every man for his own bais.

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