Haggai 1
The returned exiles have built their own paneled houses while the LORD's house lies in ruins. Because of this, the LORD has withheld rain and blessing — they sow much but harvest little. Haggai calls them to go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. Zerubbabel, Joshua, and all the remnant obeyed, and the LORD stirred their spirit to begin the work.
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| 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, | In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to 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. | This is what the LORD of hosts says: "This people say, 'The time has not yet come — the time that the LORD's house should be built.' " |
| 3 | Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, | Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying, |
| 4 | Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? | "Is it time for You yourselves to live in Your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?" |
| 5 | Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. | Now therefore this is what the LORD of hosts says: "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. | You have sown much, but bring in little. You eat, but You do not have enough. You drink, but You are not filled. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he that earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes." |
| 7 | Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. | This is what the LORD of hosts says: "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. | Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says 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. | "You looked for much, and it came to little. When You brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the LORD of hosts. "Because of My house that lies in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house. |
| 10 | Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. | Therefore the heavens over You have withheld their dew, and the earth has withheld its 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. | I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the corn, on the new wine, on the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of Your 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. | 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, since the LORD their God had sent Him. And the people feared 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. | Then Haggai, the LORD's messenger, spoke the LORD's message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says 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, | 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. They came and worked on 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. | on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius. |