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- 1:1 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,
- 1:2 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.
- 1:3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet,
- saying,
- 1:4 [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled
- houses, and this house [lie] waste?
- 1:5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your
- ways.
- 1:6 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.
- 1:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; 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,
- saith the LORD.
- 1:9 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.
- 1:10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and
- the earth is stayed [from] her fruit.
- 1:11 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.
- 1:12 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.
- 1:13 Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S
- message unto the people, saying, I [am] with you, saith the
- LORD.
- 1:14 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,
- 1:15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the
- second year of Darius the king.
-
- 2:1 In the seventh [month], in the one and twentieth [day] of
- the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai,
- saying,
- 2:2 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,
- 2:3 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?
- 2:4 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:
- 2:5 [According to] the word that I covenanted with you when
- ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye
- not.
- 2:6 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];
- 2:7 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.
- 2:8 The silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the
- LORD of hosts.
- 2:9 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.
- 2:10 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,
- 2:11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests
- [concerning] the law, saying,
- 2:12 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.
- 2:13 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.
- 2:14 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.
- 2:15 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:
- 2:16 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.
- 2:17 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.
- 2:18 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].
- 2:19 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].
- 2:20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the
- four and 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 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.
- 2:23 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.