The World English Bible (WEB): Haggai
Book 37 Haggai 001:001 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 001:002 "This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for Yahweh's house to be built.'" 001:003 Then the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, saying, 001:004 "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste? 001:005 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways. 001:006 You 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." 001:007 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: "Consider your ways. 001:008 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.
button over the "treatment hours" sign.
They waited. There were Jane, Dozia, Velma, Winifred, Janet and
Inez, six palpitating girls, each taking inventory of her possible
beauty spots that might need touching up. Even Dol Vin would succumb
to such an onslaught of orders, but--
"Suppose she charges us some dreadful price--like five dollars
each?" gasped Velma.
"Can't do it," declared Jane. "We'll go by her price list. But no
one seems to answer."
"Peeking out, I'll bet," whispered Janet. "Ring three times, Jane,
and she'll know we mean business."
Jane followed that advice, but still no answer.
"There's a side door," suggested Dozia, critically inspecting the
long, low old stone building that had been put up originally as a
rendezvous for Wellington faculty who might want to get away from
the buzz of girls and college. It seemed no one had that sort of
disease, however, and the rest cure "went to the wall" for want of
patronage. Just what company was now financing the rather expensive
venture of Dol Vin no one knew, but it must have taken a lot of
money even to buy the window scrim, the porch cretonne and the gold
Book 37 Haggai 001:001 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 001:002 "This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for Yahweh's house to be built.'" 001:003 Then the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, saying, 001:004 "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste? 001:005 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways. 001:006 You 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." 001:007 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: "Consider your ways. 001:008 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says Yahweh.