Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

For you took my silver and my gold and brought my precious valuables to your own palaces.

Lend your aid and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather yourselves to that place.” Bring down, O Lord, your warriors!

A lion has roared! Who is not afraid? The sovereign Lord has spoken! Who can refuse to prophesy?

“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel!

Don’t prophesy at Bethel any longer, for a royal temple and palace are here!”

Then the Lord took me from tending flocks and gave me this commission, ‘Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!’

The Lord confirms this oath by the arrogance of Jacob: “I swear I will never forget all you have done!

“Because you violently slaughtered your relatives, the people of Jacob, shame will cover you, and you will be destroyed forever.

When Jonah began to enter the city one day’s walk, he announced, “At the end of forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”

Look, the Lord is coming out of his dwelling place! He will descend and march on the earth’s mountaintops!

But you are the ones who will be forced to leave! For this land is not secure! Sin will thoroughly destroy it!

Lift your hand triumphantly against your adversaries; may all your enemies be destroyed!

And now, I will break Assyria’s yoke bar from your neck; I will tear apart the shackles that are on you.”

Cush and Egypt had limitless strength; Put and the Libyans were among her allies.

Your bow is ready for action; you commission your arrows. Selah. You cause flash floods on the earth’s surface.

“I will destroy everything from the face of the earth,” says the Lord.

Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s word to the people: “I am with you!” says the Lord.

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

Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah: ‘I am ready to shake the sky and the earth.