1In the second year of King Darius,^a on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai^b to Zerubbabel^c son of Shealtiel, governor^d of Judah, and to Joshua^a^e son of Jozadak,^b^f the high priest:^g

²This is what the Lord Almighty^h says: “These peopleⁱ say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.^j’ ”

³Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai:^k ⁴“Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses,^l while this house remains a ruin?^m”

⁵Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thoughtⁿ to your ways. ⁶You have planted much, but harvested little.^o You eat, but never have enough.^p You drink, but never have your fill.^q You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages,^r only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

⁷This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought^s to your ways. ⁸Go up into the mountains and bring down timber^t and build my house, so that I may take pleasure^u in it and be honored,^v” says the Lord. ⁹“You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little.^w What you brought home, I blew^x away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin,^y while each of you is busy with your own house. ¹⁰Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld^z their dew^a and the earth its crops.^b ¹¹I called for a drought^c on the fields and the mountains,^d on the grain, the new wine,^e the olive oil^f and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.^g”

¹²Then Zerubbabel^h son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnantⁱ of the people obeyed^j the voice of the Lord their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared^k the Lord.

¹³Then Haggai,^l the Lord’s messenger,^m gave this message of the Lord to the people: “I am withⁿ you,” declares the Lord. ¹⁴So the Lord stirred up^o the spirit of Zerubbabel^p son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak,^q the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant^r of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the Lord Almighty, their God,

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Haggai 1:6: You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

Footnotes

aA variant of Jeshua; here and elsewhere in Haggai
bHebrew Jehozadak, a variant of Jozadak; also in verses 12 and 14

Cross references

aSee Ezr 4:24
bSee Ezr 5:1
cSee 1 Ch 3:19; Mt 1:12–13
d Ezr 5:3; See Ne 5:14
eSee Ezr 2:2
fSee 1 Ch 6:15; See Ezr 3:2
g Zec 3:8
h Isa 13:4
iSee Isa 29:13
j Ezr 1:2
kSee Ezr 5:1
lSee 2 Sa 7:2
mver 9; Jer 33:12
nver 7; La 3:40; Hag 2:15, 18
oSee Lev 26:20; See Isa 5:10
pSee Isa 9:20; See 55:2
q Am 4:8
r Hag 2:16; Zec 8:10
sSee ver 5
tSee 1 Ch 14:1
uSee Job 22:3; Ps 132:13–14
vSee Ex 29:43; Jer 13:11
wSee Dt 28:38; See Isa 5:10
xSee Ps 103:16; See Eze 22:21
ySee ver 4; See Ne 13:11
zSee Dt 28:24
aSee Ge 27:28; 1 Ki 17:1
b Lev 26:19; Dt 28:23
cSee Dt 11:26; See 28:22; See Ru 1:1; See 1 Ki 17:1; See Isa 5:6
d Isa 7:25
eSee Dt 28:51; Ps 4:7
fSee Nu 18:12
g Hag 2:17
hver 1
iver 14; Isa 1:9; Hag 2:2
jSee Job 36:11; See Isa 50:10; Mt 28:20
kSee Dt 31:12; See Isa 1:2
lver 1
mSee Nu 27:21; See 2 Ch 36:15
nSee Ge 26:3; See Nu 14:9; See Mt 28:20; Ro 8:31
oSee Ezr 1:5
pSee Ezr 5:2
qSee 1 Ch 6:15
rSee ver 12