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Yet she became an exile;She went into captivity;Also her infants were dashed to piecesAt the head of every street;They cast lots for her honorable men,And all her great men were bound with fetters.

Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust.Your marshals are like a locust‑swarmEncamping in the stone walls on a cold day.The sun rises, and they flee,And the place where they are is not known.

They are dreaded and feared;Their justice and exaltation come forth from themselves.

And they mock at kings,And rulers are a laughing matter to them.They laugh at every fortressAnd heap up dirt and capture it.

Then they will sweep through like the wind and pass on.But they will be held guilty,They whose power is their god."

Your eyes are too pure to see evil,And You cannot look on trouble.Why do You lookOn those who deal treacherously?Why are You silent when the wicked swallow upThose more righteous than they?

The Chaldeans bring all of them up with a hook,Drag them away with their net,And gather them together in their fishing net.Therefore they are glad and rejoice.

Sun and moon stood in their lofty places;They went away at the light of Your arrows,At the brightness of Your flashing spear.

And it will be that their wealth will become spoilAnd their houses desolate;Indeed, they will build houses but not inhabit them,And plant vineyards but not drink their wine."

I will bring distress on menSo that they will walk like the blindBecause they have sinned against Yahweh;And their blood will be poured out like dustAnd their flesh like dung.

And the coast will beFor the remnant of the house of Judah;They will feed upon it.In the houses of Ashkelon they will lie down at evening;For Yahweh their God will care for themAnd restore their fortune.

This they will have in return for their pride because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of hosts.

But I will cause to remain in your midstA lowly and poor people,And they will take refuge in the name of Yahweh.

The remnant of Israel will do no injusticeAnd not speak falsehood,Nor will a deceitful tongueBe found in their mouths;For they will feed and lie downWith no one to make them tremble."

So Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work on the house of Yahweh of hosts, their God,

And I will shake all the nations; and they will come with the desirable things of all nations, and I will fill this house with glory,' says Yahweh of hosts.

Then Haggai answered and said, "‘So is this people. And so is this nation before Me,' declares Yahweh, ‘and so is every work of their hands; and what they bring near to Me there is unclean.

"Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets called out, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Return now from your evil ways and from your evil deeds."' But they did not listen or give heed to Me," declares Yahweh.

"Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My slaves the prophets, overtake your fathers? Then they returned and said, ‘As Yahweh of hosts purposed to do to us in accordance with our ways and our deeds, so He has done with us.'"'"