Haggai 1:2

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Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.

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But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are too strong for us.”

Then as soon as the copy of King Artaxerxes’ document was read before Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their colleagues, they went in haste to Jerusalem to the Jews and stopped them by force of arms.

When the prophets, Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, who was over them,

Thus in Judah it was said,
“The strength of the burden bearers is failing,
Yet there is much rubbish;
And we ourselves are unable
To rebuild the wall.”

The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside;
I will be killed in the streets!”

The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!
A lion is in the open square!”

The fear of man brings a snare,
But he who trusts in the Lord will be exalted.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

He who watches the wind will not sow and he who looks at the clouds will not reap.

“I was asleep but my heart was awake.
A voice! My beloved was knocking:
‘Open to me, my sister, my darling,

My dove, my perfect one!

For my head is drenched with dew,
My locks with the damp of the night.’