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- HAGGAI:
-
-
- CHAPTER 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,
-
- 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.
-
- 3. Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
-
- 4. Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and
- this house lie waste?
-
- 5. Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your
- ways.
-
- 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.
-
- 7. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 10. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the
- earth is stayed from her fruit.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 13. Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message
- unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
-
- 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,
-
- 15. In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the
- second year of Darius the king.
-
-
- CHAPTER 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. 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,
-
- 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?
-
- 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:
-
- 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.
-
- 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;
-
- 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.
-
- 8. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of
- hosts.
-
- 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.
-
- 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,
-
- 11. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning
- the law, saying,
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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:
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-
- 20. And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four
- and twentieth day of the month, saying,
-
- 21. Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake
- the heavens and the earth;
-
- 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.
-
- 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.
-