Haggai 1
v1
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahwehโs 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,
v2
โThis is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, โThe time hasnโt yet come, the time for Yahwehโs house to be built.โโ
v3
Then Yahwehโs word came by Haggai, the prophet, saying,
v4
โIs it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
v5
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
v6
You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you donโt have enough. You drink, but you arenโt 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.โ
v7
This is what Yahweh of Armies says: โConsider your ways.
v8
Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,โ says Yahweh.
v9
โYou looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?โ says Yahweh of Armies, โBecause of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
v10
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
v11
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.โ
v12
Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their Godโs voice, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.
v13
Then Haggai, Yahwehโs messenger, spoke Yahwehโs message to the people, saying, โI am with you,โ says Yahweh.
v14
Yahweh 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 Yahweh of Armies, their God,
v15
in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.