Haggai

The Call to Rebuild the Temple

Chapter 1

¹ In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak the great priest, saying: ² This is what the LORD of Hosts says: This people say, "The time has not come, the time for the house of the LORD to be built." ³ The word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying: ⁴ Is it time for you to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate? ⁵ Now, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider your ways. ⁶ You have sown much, and the harvest is little; you eat but are not satisfied, you drink but are not filled, you dress but are not warmed, and the wage earner earns wages to put them into a pierced bag. ⁷ This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider your ways. ⁸ Go up the mountain and bring wood and build the house, and I will accept it and I will be glorified, says the LORD. ⁹ You turned to much and behold to little, and you brought the house and I blew into it—because what? declares the LORD of hosts. Because my house which is cut off, and you run each man to his house. ¹⁰ Therefore the heavens have withheld dew from you, and the earth has withheld its yield. ¹¹ I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the olive oil, on what the ground produces, on humanity, on livestock, and on all the labor of hands. ¹² Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak the great priest, and all the remnant of the people heard the voice of the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, just as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people feared before the LORD. ¹³ Then Haggai, the LORD's messenger, spoke the LORD's message to the people: "I am with you," declares the LORD. ¹⁴ And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua 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 Hosts, their God. ¹⁵ On the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius.

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