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The Lord said to his people: Come and present your case to the hills and mountains.

I have sinned against the Lord . And so I must endure his anger, until he comes to my defense. But I know that I will see him making things right for me and leading me to the light.

The Lord God demands loyalty. In his anger, he takes revenge on his enemies.

The Lord is powerful, yet patient; he makes sure that the guilty are always punished. He can be seen in storms and in whirlwinds; clouds are the dust from his feet.

Who can stand the heat of his furious anger? It flashes out like fire and shatters stones.

But like a roaring flood, the Lord chases his enemies into dark places and destroys them.

So don't plot against the Lord ! He wipes out his enemies, and they never revive.

An officer gives a command. But his soldiers stumble, as they hasten to build a shelter to protect themselves against rocks thrown down from the city wall.

that he offers sacrifices to his fishing nets, because they make him rich and provide choice foods.

Will he keep hauling in his nets and destroying nations without showing mercy?

Let all the world be silent— the Lord is present in his holy temple.

to rescue your people and save your chosen one. You crushed a nation's ruler and stripped his evil kingdom of its power.

His troops had come like a storm, hoping to scatter us and glad to gobble us down. To them we were refugees in hiding— but you smashed their heads with their own weapons.

I will reach out to punish Judah and Jerusalem— nothing will remain of the god Baal; nothing will be remembered of his pagan priests.

before it's too late. The Lord has set a time when his fierce anger will strike like a storm and sweep you away.

If you humbly obey the Lord , then come and worship him. If you do right and are humble, perhaps you will be safe on that day when the Lord turns loose his anger.

The Lord God hasn't forgotten those survivors in Judah, and he will help them— his people will take your land to use for pasture. And when evening comes, they will rest in houses at Ashkelon.

The Lord your God wins victory after victory and is always with you. He celebrates and sings because of you, and he will refresh your life with his love."

On the first day of the sixth month of the second year that Darius was king of Persia, the Lord told Haggai the prophet to speak his message to the governor of Judah and to the high priest. So Haggai told Governor Zerubbabel and High Priest Joshua

Zerubbabel and Joshua, together with the others who had returned from exile in Babylonia, obeyed the Lord 's message spoken by his prophet Haggai, and they started showing proper respect for the Lord .