Haggai
Hag.1
[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 speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying,
This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.
[3] Then came
the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
[4] Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled
houses, and this house lie waste?
[5] Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; 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.
[7] Thus saith the LORD of hosts; 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.
[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.
[10] Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her 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.
[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.
[13] Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the
people, saying, I am with you, saith 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,
[15] In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the
king.
Hag.2
[1] In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by
the prophet Haggai, saying,
[2] Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and
to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,
[3] Who is left
among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in
comparison of it as nothing?
[4] Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O
Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and
work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
[5] According to the word that I covenanted with you
when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
[6] For thus saith the LORD
of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the
dry land;
[7] And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house
with glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
[8] The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.
[9]
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this
place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
[10] In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in
the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
[11] Thus saith
the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
[12] If one bear holy flesh in the skirt
of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be
holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
[13] Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead
body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
[14]
Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and
so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
[15] And now, I pray you, consider
from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
[16]
Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one
came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
[17] I smote
you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me,
saith the LORD.
[18] Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the