Chapter 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 speaketh¹ the LORD of hosts, saying,² This people say,¹ The time is not come,² the time that the LORD'S house should be built.⁹

Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,²

[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell² in your cieled⁷ houses, and this house [lie] waste?

Now therefore thus saith¹ the LORD of hosts; Consider^{3 3824} your ways.

Ye have sown¹ much,⁵³ and bring in⁵³ little; ye eat,² but ye have not enough; ye drink,² but ye are not filled with drink;² ye clothe² you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages¹⁰² earneth wages¹⁰² [to put it] into a bag with holes.⁷

Thus saith¹ the LORD of hosts; Consider^{3 3824} your ways.

Go up³ to the mountain, and bring⁵² wood, and build³ the house; and I will take pleasure⁴ in it, and I will be glorified,¹¹ saith¹ the LORD.

Ye looked² for much,⁵³ and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought⁵² [it] home, I did blow¹ upon it. Why? saith⁷ the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run⁵ every man unto his own house.

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed¹ from dew, and the earth is stayed¹ [from] her fruit.

And I called⁴ 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,⁵⁵ and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed⁴ the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent¹ him, and the people did fear⁴ before the LORD.

Then spake⁴ Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying,² I [am] with you, saith⁷ the LORD.

And the LORD stirred up⁵⁵ 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 came⁴ and did⁴ work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.