Study Desk

Nothing can heal your wound; your injury will not heal. Everyone who hears about you applauds, because everyone has felt your endless cruelty.

The enemy offers sacrifices to his net and burns incense to worship it, because it lets him live like the rich and enjoy the best food.

It is not yet time for the message to come true, but that time is coming soon; the message will come true. It may seem like a long time, but be patient and wait for it, because it will surely come; it will not be delayed.

"Just as wine can trick a person, those who are too proud will not last, because their desire is like a grave's desire for death, and like death they always want more. They gather other nations for themselves and collect for themselves all the countries.

Because you have stolen from many nations, those who are left will take much from you. This is because you have killed many people, destroying countries and cities and everyone in them.

Because you have made plans to destroy many people, you have made your own houses ashamed of you. Because of it, you will lose your lives.

You hurt many people in Lebanon, but now you will be hurt. You killed many animals there, and now you must be afraid because of what you did to that land, those cities, and the people who lived in them.

"An idol does no good, because a human made it; it is only a statue that teaches lies. The one who made it expects his own work to help him, but he makes idols that can't even speak!

Be silent before the Lord God , because the Lord 's day for judging people is coming soon. The Lord has prepared a sacrifice; he has made holy his invited guests.

Cry, you people living in the market area, because all the merchants will be dead; all the silver traders will be gone.

I will make life hard on the people; they will walk around like the blind, because they have sinned against the Lord . Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their insides will be dumped like trash.

This is what Moab and Ammon get for being proud, because they insulted and made fun of the people of the Lord All-Powerful.

The Lord will frighten them, because he will destroy all the gods of the earth. Then everyone in faraway places will worship him wherever they are.

Then Jerusalem will not be ashamed of the wrongs done against me, because I will remove from this city those who like to brag; there will never be any more proud people on my holy mountain in Jerusalem.

"You look for much, but you find little. When you bring it home, I destroy it. Why?" asks the Lord All-Powerful. "Because you all work hard for your own houses while my house is still in ruins!

Because of what you have done, the sky holds back its rain and the ground holds back its crops.

Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people who were left alive obeyed the Lord their God and the message from Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared the Lord .

But the Lord says, ‘Zerubbabel, be brave. Also, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, be brave. And all you people who live in the land, be brave,' says the Lord . ‘Work, because I am with you,' says the Lord All-Powerful.

The Lord All-Powerful says, ‘On that day I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,' says the Lord , ‘and I will make you important like my signet ring, because I have chosen you!' says the Lord All-Powerful."

The second angel said to him, "Run and tell that young man, ‘Jerusalem will become a city without walls, because there will be so many people and cattle in it.