The Book of
Haggai
1
1 In
the second year
of Darius the
king, in the
sixth month, in
the first day
of the month,
the LORD’s
word 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,
2 “This
is what the
LORD of Armies
says: These
people say, ‘The
time hasn’t yet
come, the time
for the LORD’s
house to be
built.’ ”
3 Then
the LORD’s word
came by Haggai
the prophet,
saying,
4 “Is
it a time
for you yourselves
to dwell in
your paneled
houses, while this
house lies waste?
5 Now
therefore this is
what the LORD
of Armies says: ‘Consider
your ways.
6 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.’
7 “This
is what the
LORD of Armies
says: ‘Consider
your ways.
8 Go
up to the
mountain, bring
wood, and build
the house. I
will take pleasure
in it, and
I will be
glorified,” says the
LORD.
9 “You
looked for much,
and, behold,
it came to
little; and when
you brought it
home, I blew it
away. Why?” says
the LORD of
Armies, “Because
of my house
that lies waste,
while each of you
is busy with
his own house.
10 Therefore
for your sake
the heavens
withhold the dew,
and the
earth withholds its
fruit.
11 I
called for a
drought on
the land, on the
mountains, on the
grain, on the
new wine, on
the oil, on
that which
the ground produces,
on men,
on livestock, and
on all the
labor of the
hands.”
12 Then
Zerubbabel the son
of Shealtiel and
Joshua the son
of Jehozadak, the
high priest, with
all the remnant
of the people,
obeyed the LORD
their God’s
voice, and the
words of Haggai
the prophet, as
the LORD their
God had sent
him; and the
people feared the
LORD.
13 Then
Haggai, the LORD’s
messenger, spoke the
LORD’s message to
the people, saying, “I
am with you,”
says the LORD.
14 The
LORD 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 worked
on the house
of the LORD
of Armies, their
God,
15 in
the twenty-fourth
day of the
month, in the
sixth month, in
the second year
of Darius the
king.