Haggai 1

^aIn 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 ^bZerubbabel the son of ^cShealtiel, ^ccgovernor of Judah, and to ^dJoshua the son of ^deJosedech ^eethe high priest, saying, ²Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built. ³Then came the word of the Lord ^fby Haggai the prophet, saying,

^4gIs it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ^hcieled houses,

And this house lie ^twaste?

⁵Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; ⁱConsider your ways.

^6jYe have sown much, and ^kbring in little;

^lYe eat, but ye have not ^menough;

Ye ⁿdrink, but ye are not ^ofilled with drink;

Ye clothe you, but there is none warm;

And ^phe that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

⁷Thus saith the Lord of hosts; ⁱConsider your ways.

⁸Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house;

And I will take pleasure in it, and ^qI will be glorified, saith the Lord.

^9jYe looked for much, and lo, it came to little;

And when ye brought it home, ^rI did ^sblow upon it.

Why? saith the Lord of hosts.

Because of mine house that is ^twaste,

And ye run every man unto his own house.

¹⁰Therefore ^uthe heaven over you ^vis stayed from ^vvdew,

And the earth ^vis stayed from her ^vvfruit.

¹¹And ^wI called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains,

And upon the ^xcorn, and upon ^xthe new wine, and upon ^xthe oil,

And upon that which the ground bringeth forth,

And upon men, and upon cattle, and upon ^yall the labour of the hands.

^12zThen ^bZerubbabel the son of ^cShealtiel, and ^dJoshua the son of ^deJosedech the high priest, with all ^athe 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. ¹³Then spake Haggai ^bthe Lord’s messenger in the Lord’s message unto the people, saying, ^cI am with you, saith the Lord. ¹⁴And ^dthe Lord stirred up the spirit of ^eZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^egovernor of Judah, and the spirit of ^eJoshua the son of Josedech the high priest, and the spirit of all ^athe remnant of the people; and they came and ^fdid work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, ^15gin the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

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