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of hosts, their God, in the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,


 * is left among you that saw this house in her first glory?
 * And how do ye see it now?
 * Is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?
 * Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord:
 * And be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest;
 * And be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work:
 * For I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts:
 * According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt,
 * So my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
 * For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while,
 * And I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;