Haggai 1:2
Context1:2 The Lord who rules over all 1 says this: “These people have said, ‘The time for rebuilding the Lord’s temple has not yet come.’” 2
Haggai 2:17
Context2:17 I struck all the products of your labor 3 with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ 4 says the Lord.
1 sn The epithet
2 tn Heb “the time has not come, the time for the house of the
3 tn Heb “you, all the work of your hands”; NRSV “you and all the products of your toil”; NIV “all the work of your hands.”
4 tn Heb “and there was not with you.” The context favors the idea that the harvests were so poor that the people took care of only themselves, leaving no offering for the