| 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, |
| 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. |
| 3 | Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet,
saying, |
| 4 | 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. |
| 7 | Thus saith the
LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. |
|
8 | 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. |
| 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, |
| 15 | In the four and twentieth day
of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. |
