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Chapter 1 |
| 1 | In the second
year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month,
came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
priest, saying, |
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2 | Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people
say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be
built. |
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Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet,
saying, |
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Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and
this house lie waste? |
| 5 | Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts;
Consider your ways. |
| 6 | Ye 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. |
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7 | Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider
your ways. |
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| Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the
house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the
LORD. |
| 9 |
Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye
brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of
mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. |
| 10 |
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from
her fruit. |
| 11
| And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the
mountains, and upon the corn, 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 labour of the hands. |
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12 | Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the
people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the
prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the
LORD. |
| 13 |
Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message
unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD. |
| 14 | And the LORD
stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah,
and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit
of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of
the LORD of hosts, their God, |
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15 | In the four and twentieth day of the
sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. |
