| 1:1 |
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, cameYahwehs the word ofcame Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, untoto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, |
| 1:2 |
ThusThis speakethis Jehovahwhat Yahweh of hosts,Armies saying,says: ThisThese people say, ItThe is not the time forhasnt usyet to come, the time for JehovahsYahwehs house to be built. |
| 1:3 |
Then cameYahwehs the word ofcame Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying, |
| 1:4 |
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiledpaneled houses, while this house liethlies waste? |
| 1:5 |
Now therefore thusthis saithis Jehovahwhat Yahweh of hostsArmies says: Consider your ways. |
| 1:6 |
YeYou have sown much, and bring in little;. yeYou eat, but yeyou dont have not enough;. yeYou drink, but yeyou arearent not filled with drink;. yeYou clothe youyourselves, but thereno one is none warm; and he thatwho earnethearns wages earnethearns wages to put itthem into a bag with holes in it. |
| 1:7 |
ThusThis saithis Jehovahwhat Yahweh of hostsArmies says: Consider your ways. |
| 1:8 |
Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house;. and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saithsays JehovahYahweh. |
| 1:9 |
YeYou looked for much, and, lobehold, it came to little; and when yeyou brought it home, I didblew blowit upon itaway. Why? saithsays JehovahYahweh of hosts.Armies, Because of my house that liethlies waste, while yeeach runof everyyou manis tobusy with his own house. |
| 1:10 |
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdethwithholds its fruit. |
| 1:11 |
And I called for a drought uponon the land, andon upon the mountains, andon upon the grain, andon upon the new wine, andon upon the oil, andon upon that which the ground bringeth forthproduces, andon upon men, andon upon cattlelivestock, and uponon all the labor of the hands. |
| 1:12 |
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed theYahweh voicetheir ofGods Jehovah their Godvoice, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as JehovahYahweh their God had sent him; and the people didfeared fear before JehovahYahweh. |
| 1:13 |
Then spake Haggai, JehovahsYahwehs messenger, inspoke JehovahsYahwehs message untoto the people, saying, I am with you, saithsays JehovahYahweh. |
| 1:14 |
AndYahweh Jehovah 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 didworked work on the house of JehovahYahweh of hostsArmies, their God, |
| 1:15 |
in the fourtwenty andfourth twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. |
| 2:1 |
In the seventh month, in the onetwenty andfirst twentieth day of the month, cameYahwehs the word ofcame Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying, |
| 2:3 |
Who is left among you thatwho saw this house in its former glory? andHow how do yeyou see it now? isIsnt it not in your eyes as nothing? |
| 2:4 |
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saithsays Jehovah;Yahweh. andBe be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest;. andBe be strong, all yeyou people of the land, saithsays JehovahYahweh, and work:, for I am with you, saithsays JehovahYahweh of hosts,Armies. |
| 2:5 |
accordingThis tois the word that I covenanted with you when yeyou came out of Egypt, and my Spirit abodelived among you:. fearDont yebe notafraid. |
| 2:6 |
For thusthis saithis Jehovahwhat Yahweh of hostsArmies says: Yet once more, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; |
| 2:7 |
and I will shake all nations;. andThe thetreasure precious things of all nations shallwill come;, and I will fill this house with glory, saithsays JehovahYahweh of hostsArmies. |
| 2:8 |
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saithsays JehovahYahweh of hostsArmies. |
| 2:9 |
The latter glory of this house shallwill be greater than the former, saithsays JehovahYahweh of hostsArmies; and in this place I will I give peace, saithsays JehovahYahweh of hostsArmies. |
| 2:10 |
In the fourtwenty andfourth twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, cameYahwehs the word ofcame Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying, |
| 2:11 |
ThusYahweh saithof JehovahArmies of hostssays: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, |
| 2:12 |
If onesomeone bearcarries holy fleshmeat in the skirtfold of his garment, and with his skirtfold dotouches touch bread, or pottagestew, or wine, or oil, or any food, shallwill it become holy? AndThe the priests answered and said, No. |
| 2:13 |
Then Haggai said Haggai, If one thatwho is unclean by reason of a dead body touchtouches any of these, shallwill it be unclean? AndThe the priests answered and said, It shallwill be unclean. |
| 2:14 |
Then answered Haggai and saidanswered, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saithsays JehovahYahweh; and so is every work of their hands;. andThat that which they offer there is unclean. |
| 2:15 |
And nowNow, Iplease pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid uponon a stone in theYahwehs temple of Jehovah. |
| 2:16 |
Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were butonly ten;. whenWhen one came to the winevatwine vat to draw out fifty vessels, there were butonly twenty. |
| 2:17 |
I smotestruck you with blastingblight, and with mildew, and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet yeyou turneddidnt notturn to me, saithsays JehovahYahweh. |
| 2:18 |
Consider, I pray youplease, from this day and backward, from the fourtwenty andfourth twentieth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of JehovahsYahwehs temple was laid, consider it. |
| 2:19 |
Is the seed yet in the barn? yeaYes, the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree havehavent notproduced. broughtFrom forth;today fromI this day will I bless you. |
| 2:20 |
AndYahwehs the word of Jehovah came the second time untoto Haggai in the fourtwenty andfourth twentieth day of the month, saying, |
| 2:21 |
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;. |
| 2:22 |
and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms;. and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations;. and I will overthrow the chariots, and those thatwho ride in them;. andThe the horses and their riders shallwill come down, everyeveryone one by the sword of his brother. |
| 2:23 |
In that day, saithsays JehovahYahweh of hostsArmies, I will I take theeyou, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saithsays JehovahYahweh, and will make theeyou aslike a signet; ring, for I have chosen theeyou, saithsays JehovahYahweh of hostsArmies. |