Haggai 1

CHAPTER 1

The Commission to Rebuild the Temple

¹In the ^asecond year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of ¹Yahweh came by the hand of ^bHaggai the prophet to ^cZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^dgovernor of Judah, and to ^eJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

²“Thus says Yahweh of ¹hosts, ‘This people says, “The time has not come, even the time for the house of Yahweh to be rebuilt.” ’ ”

³Then the word of Yahweh came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,

⁴“Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house ^alies waste?”

⁵So now, thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Set your heart to consider your ways!

⁶“You have ^asown much, but bring in little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is ¹not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

⁷Thus says Yahweh of hosts, “Set your heart to consider your ways!

⁸“Go up to the ¹mountains and bring wood and ^arebuild the house of God, that I may be ^bpleased with it and be ^cglorified,” says Yahweh.

⁹“^aYou look for much, but behold, it comes to little; and you bring it home, and I ^bblow it away. Why?” declares Yahweh of hosts, “Because of My house which ^clies waste, while each of you runs to his own house.

¹⁰“Therefore, because of you the ^asky has restrained ¹its dew and the earth has restrained its produce.

¹¹“And I called for a ^1adrought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on ^bmen, on cattle, and on ^call the labor of ²your hands.”

¹²Then ^aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and ^bJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, ^clistened to the voice of Yahweh their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him. And the people ^dfeared Yahweh.

¹³Then Haggai, the ^amessenger of Yahweh, spoke by the commissioned message of Yahweh to the people saying, “‘^bI am with you,’ declares Yahweh.”

¹⁴So Yahweh stirred up the spirit of ^aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^bgovernor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the ^cremnant of the people; and they came and ^ddid work on the house of Yahweh of hosts, their God,

¹⁵on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.