| 1:1 |
In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest: |
| 1:2 |
“The Lord of HostsArmies says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.” |
| 1:3 |
The word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet Haggai: |
| 1:5 |
Now, the Lord of HostsArmies says this: “Think carefully about your ways: |
| 1:6 |
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to becomebe drunkhappy. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner puts his wages into a bag with a hole in it.” |
| 1:7 |
The Lord of HostsArmies says this: “Think carefully about your ways. |
| 1:8 |
Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house.; Thenand I will be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the Lord. |
| 1:9 |
“You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why?” This is the declaration of the Lord of HostsArmies. “Because Mymy house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house. |
| 1:11 |
I have summoned a drought on the fields and the hills, on the grain, new wine, olivefresh oil, and whatever the ground yields, on manpeople and beastanimals, and on all that your hands produce.” |
| 1:12 |
Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the entire remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. So the people feared the Lord. |
| 1:13 |
Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, delivered the Lord’s message to the people,: “I am with you”— — this is the Lord’s declaration..” |
| 1:14 |
The Lord stirredroused up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the spirit of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. They began work on the house of Yahwehthe Lord of HostsArmies, their God, |
| 2:1 |
On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet Haggai: |
| 2:3 |
‘Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Doesn’t it seem to you like nothing toby youcomparison? |
| 2:4 |
Even so, be strong, Zerubbabel”— — this is the Lord’s declaration. “Be strong, Joshua son of Jehozadak, high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land”— — this is the Lord’s declaration. “Work! For I am with you”— — the declaration of the Lord of HostsArmies. |
| 2:5 |
“This is the promise I made to you when you came out of Egypt, and Mymy Spirit is present among you; don’t be afraid.”.’” |
| 2:6 |
For the Lord of HostsArmies says this: “Once more, in a little while, I am going to shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. |
| 2:7 |
I will shake all the nations so that the treasures of all the nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,” says the Lord of HostsArmies. |
| 2:8 |
“The silver and gold belong to Me”—me” — this is the declaration of the Lord of HostsArmies. |
| 2:9 |
“The final glory of this house will be greater than the first,” says the Lord of HostsArmies. “I will provide peace in this place”—” — this is the declaration of the Lord of HostsArmies. |
| 2:10 |
On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet Haggai: |
| 2:11 |
“This is what the Lord of HostsArmies says: Ask the priests for a ruling. |
| 2:14 |
Then Haggai replied, “So is this people, and so is this nation before Me”—me — this is the Lord’s declaration. “And so is every work of their hands; even what they offer there is defiled. |
| 2:15 |
“Now, reflect back from this day on, think carefully: Before one stone was placed on another in the Lord’s temple, |
| 2:16 |
what state were you in? When someone came to a grain heap of 20twenty measures, it only amounted to 10ten; when one came to the winepress to dip 50fifty measures from the vat, it only amounted to 20twenty. |
| 2:17 |
I struck you — all the work of your hands — with blight, mildew, and hail, but you didn’t turn to Me”—me — this is the Lord’s declaration. |
| 2:18 |
“ConsiderFrom carefully from this day forwardon, think carefully; from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid; considerthink it carefully. |
| 2:23 |
On that day”—” — this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“Armies — “I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Mymy servant”—” — this is the Lord’s declaration—“ — “and make you like Mymy signet ring, for I have chosen you.” This is the declaration of the Lord of HostsArmies. |