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 Josedech, 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
cieled 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 Josedech, 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 in
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 Josedech, 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.
In the seventh month, in the one and
twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the
prophet Haggai, saying,
Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,
Who is left among you that saw this house in
her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes
in comparison of it as nothing?
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the
LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest;
and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work:
for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
According to the word that I covenanted with
you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you:
fear ye not.
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; Yet once,
it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth,
and the sea, and the dry land;
And I will shake all nations, and the desire
of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory,
saith the LORD of hosts.
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,
saith the LORD of hosts.
The glory of this latter house shall be
greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this
place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
In the four and twentieth day of the ninth
month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by
Haggai the prophet, saying,
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the
priests concerning the law, saying,
If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his
garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or
oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and
said, No.
Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by
a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the
priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this
people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is
every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is
unclean.
And now, I pray you, consider from this day
and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple
of the LORD:
Since those days were, when one came to an
heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the
pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were
but twenty.
I smote you with blasting and with mildew
and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not
to me, saith the LORD.
Consider now from this day and upward, from
the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day
that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider
it.
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the
vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree,
hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
And again the word of the LORD came unto
Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah,
saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms,
and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and
I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the
horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of
his brother.
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I
take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith
the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee,
saith the LORD of hosts.