Listen! The Lord is calling to the city! It is wise to respect your authority, O Lord! Listen, O nation, and those assembled in the city!

Whatever you plot against the Lord, he will completely destroy! Distress will not arise a second time.

How long, Lord, must I cry for help? But you do not listen! I call out to you, “Violence!” But you do not intervene!

The Lord responded: “Write down this message! Record it legibly on tablets, so the one who announces it may read it easily.

For recognition of the Lord’s sovereign majesty will fill the earth just as the waters fill up the sea.

The sovereign Lord is my source of strength. He gives me the agility of a deer; he enables me to negotiate the rugged terrain. (This prayer is for the song leader. It is to be accompanied by stringed instruments.)

This is how they will be repaid for their arrogance, for they taunted and verbally harassed the people of the Lord who commands armies.

Here then is what the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Think carefully about what you are doing.

Go up to the hill country and bring back timber to build the temple. Then I will be pleased and honored,’ says the Lord.

On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the Lord spoke again through the prophet Haggai:

“The Lord who rules over all says, ‘Ask the priests about the law.

Then the Lord spoke again to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month:

Then the man standing among the myrtle trees spoke up and said, “These are the ones whom the Lord has sent to walk about on the earth.”

The Lord then addressed good, comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me.

“Sing out and be happy, Zion my daughter! For look, I have come; I will settle in your midst,” says the Lord.

The Lord will take possession of Judah as his portion in the holy land and he will choose Jerusalem once again.

Be silent in the Lord’s presence, all people everywhere, for he is being moved to action in his holy dwelling place.

The crown will then be turned over to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and Hen son of Zephaniah as a memorial in the temple of the Lord.

Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-Melech and their companions to seek the Lord’s favor

“‘It then came about that just as I cried out, but they would not obey, so they will cry out, but I will not listen,’ the Lord Lord who rules over all had said.