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,
02 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.
03 Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the
prophet, saying,
04 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your
ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?
05 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts;
Consider your ways.
06 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.
07 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your
ways.
08 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.
09 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.
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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.
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