Haggai 1
1 1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the
first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet unto
Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of
Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
2Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts,
saying, This people say, It is not the time for us to come, the time
for Jehovah's house to be built.
3Then came the word of Jehovah by Haggai
the prophet, saying,
4Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your
ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?
5Now therefore thus saith
Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
6Ye have sown much, and bring in
little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with
drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages
earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7Thus saith
Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
8Go up to the mountain, and bring
wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be
glorified, saith Jehovah.
9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to
little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith Jehovah
of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his
own house.
10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and
the earth withholdeth its fruit.
11And I called for a drought upon the
land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and
upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men,
and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
12Then Zerubbabel
the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with
all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Jehovah their God, and the
words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him; and the
people did fear before Jehovah.
13Then spake Haggai Jehovah's messenger
in Jehovah's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith Jehovah.
14And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high
priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and
did work on the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,
15in the four and
twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of
Darius the king.
