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Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says the LORD.

Haggai 1:8 · WEB

This verse in other languages

ગુજરાતીહાગ્ગાય ૧:૮
પર્વતો પર જાઓ, લાકડાં લાવો, મારું સભાસ્થાન બાંધો; તેનાથી હું ખુશ થઈશ અને હું મહિમાવાન થઈશ!’
हिन्दीहाग्गै १:८
पहाड़ पर चढ़ जाओ और लकड़ी ले आओ और इस भवन को बनाओ; और मैं उसको देखकर प्रसन्न होऊँगा, और मेरी महिमा होगी, यहोवा का यही वचन है।

In context

6You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’

7“This is what the LORD of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.

8Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says the LORD.

9“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the LORD of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

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