Haggai 1:2 Cross References - NSB

² Jehovah (YHWH) of Hosts said to Haggai: »These people say that this is not the right time to rebuild the Temple.«

³¹ The men who had gone with him said: »We cannot attack those people! They are too strong for us!

²³ Then, after reading the king's letter, Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their friends went quickly to Jerusalem, to the Jews to compel them by force to stop.

¹⁰ Judah said: »The strength of the workmen is giving way. There is a lot of rubbish so it is impossible for us to put up the wall.«

¹³ The lazy man says: »There is a lion outside. I will be killed in the streets.«

¹³ The lazy man says: »There is a lion in the way; a lion is in the streets.« ¹⁴ As the door turns on its hinges, so does the lazy man on his bed. ¹⁵ The lazy man hides his hand in his bosom. It wearies him to lift it to his mouth. ¹⁶ The lazy man is wiser in his own conceit than seven men who can answer with good sense.

²⁵ Fear of man brings a snare (trap). He who trusts in Jehovah will be safe.

¹⁰ Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, where you are going.

⁴ He who observes the wind will not sow and he that regards the clouds will not reap.

² (The Shulamite) »I sleep, but my heart is awake. It is the voice of my beloved that knocks, saying: ‘Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.’« ³ »I have removed my coat. How shall I put it on? I have washed my feet. How shall I defile them?