Haggai chapter 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 Dosedec the high priest, saying, 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.
Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it time for you,
O ye, to dwell in your sealed houses, and this house lie waste?
Now therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways.
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.
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways.
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.
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.
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her
fruit.
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.
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedek 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.
Then spake Haggai the Lord's messenger, and the Lord's message unto the people,
saying, I am with you, saith the Lord.
And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Josedek, 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, in the four
and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.