Quotes About Community

But I will leave within you a meek and humble people, and they will trust in the name of the LORD.

Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!

On that day they will say to Jerusalem: “Do not fear, O Zion; do not let your hands fall limp.

“I will gather those among you who grieve over the appointed feasts, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.

that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ëThe time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.í”

“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD.

Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD.

So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,

“Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and also to the remnant of the people. Ask them,

But now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the LORD. Be strong, O Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. And be strong, all you people of the land, declares the LORD. Work! For I am with you, declares the LORD of Hosts.

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëAsk the priests for a ruling.

“Where are you going?” I asked. “To measure Jerusalem,” he replied, “and to determine its width and length.”

and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ëJerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.

“Shout for joy and be glad, O Daughter of Zion, for I am coming to dwell among you,” declares the LORD.

On that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, you will each invite your neighbor to sit under your own vine and fig tree.í”

“Take an offering from the exiles—from Heldai, Tobijah, and Jedaiah, who have arrived from Babylon—and go that same day to the house of Josiah son of Zephaniah.

The crown will reside in the temple of the LORD as a memorial to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and the gracious son of Zephaniah.

Even those far away will come and build the temple of the LORD, and you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent Me to you. This will happen if you diligently obey the voice of the LORD your God.”

Now the people of Bethel had sent Sharezer and Regem-melech, along with their men, to plead before the LORD

And when you were eating and drinking, were you not doing so simply for yourselves?

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ëAdminister true justice. Show loving devotion and compassion to one another.

Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. And do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.í