Sermon Tone Analysis

English Standard Version (Chapter 1)

In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to bZerubbabel the son of cShealtiel, governor of Judah, and to dJoshua the son of eJehozadak, the high priest:

In the second year of Darius the king:

In the sixth month, on the first day of the month

The word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet

To Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel governor of Judah

And to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest

English Standard Version (Chapter 1)

2 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.” 3 Then the word of the LORD came fby the hand of Haggai the prophet, 4 g“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while hthis house lies in ruins?

Thus says the LORD of hosts:

These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD

Then the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet,

Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses

While this house lies in ruins

English Standard Version (Chapter 1)

5 Now, therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: iConsider your ways.

6 jYou have sown much, and harvested little.

kYou eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill.

You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm.

And he who learns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

Consider your ways:

Says the LORD of hosts

You have sown much, and harvested little

You eat, but you never have enough

You drink, but you never have your fill

You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm

He who learns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

English Standard Version (Chapter 1)

7 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: iConsider your ways.

8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that mI may take pleasure in it and that nI may be glorified, says the LORD.

9 jYou looked for much, and behold, it came to little.

And when you brought it home, oI blew it away.

Why? declares the LORD of hosts.

Because of my house hthat lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.

Consider your ways:

Thus says the LORD of hosts

Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house

That I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD

You looked for much, and behold, it came to little

When you brought it home, I blew it away.

Why? declares the LORD of hosts.

Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house

English Standard Version (Chapter 1)

10 Therefore pthe heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.

11 And qI have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on rthe grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and son all their labors.”

Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew

The earth has withheld its produce

I have called for a drought on the land and the hills

on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and son all their labors.”