Chaggai, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} In the second year of Daryavesh the king, in the sixth month,
in the first day of the month, the Word of the LORD came by Chaggai,
the prophet, to Zerubbavel, the son of She'alti'el, governor of
Yehudah, and to Yehoshua, the son of Yehotzadak, the [1>]kohen
gadol[<1], saying, {1:2} "This is what the LORD of Armies says: These
people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for the LORD's house
to be built.'"
{1:3} Then the Word of the LORD came by Chaggai, the prophet,
saying, {1:4} "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your
paneled houses, while this house lies waste? {1:5} Now therefore this
is what the LORD of Armies says: Consider your ways. {1:6} You have
sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough.
You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves,
but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them
into a bag with holes in it."
{1:7} This is what the LORD of Armies says: "Consider your ways.
{1:8} 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. {1:9}
"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you
brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the LORD of Armies,
"Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with
his own house. {1:10} Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the
dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. {1:11} I called for a drought
on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the
oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on cattle, and on
all the labor of the hands."
{1:12} Then Zerubbavel, the son of She'alti'el, and Yehoshua, the
son of Yehotzadak, the [2>]kohen gadol[<2], with all the remnant of
the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD, their God, and the words of
Chaggai, the prophet, as the LORD, their God, had sent him; and the
people feared the LORD.
{1:13} Then Chaggai, the LORD's messenger, spoke in the LORD's
message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says the LORD.
{1:14} The LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbavel, the son of
She'alti'el, governor of Yehudah, and the spirit of Yehoshua, the son
of Yehotzadak, the [3>]kohen gadol[<3], and the spirit of all the
remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the
LORD of Armies, their God, {1:15} in the twenty-fourth day of the
month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Daryavesh the king.
{2:1} In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month,
the Word of the LORD came by Chaggai the prophet, saying, {2:2} "Speak
now to Zerubbavel, the son of She'alti'el, governor of Yehudah, and to
Yehoshua, the son of Yehotzadak, the [1>]kohen gadol[<1], and to the
remnant of the people, saying, {2:3} 'Who is left among you who saw
this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn't it in
your eyes as nothing? {2:4} Yet now be strong, Zerubbavel,' says the
LORD. 'Be strong, Yehoshua, son of Yehotzadak, the [2>]kohen
gadol[<2]. Be strong, all you people of the land,' says the LORD, 'and
work, for I am with you,' says the LORD of Armies. {2:5} This is the
word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my
Spirit lived among you. Don't be afraid.' {2:6} For this is what the
LORD of Armies says: 'Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake
the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land; {2:7} and I will
shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I
will fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Armies. {2:8} The
silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says the LORD of Armies. {2:9}
'The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,' says
the LORD of Armies; 'and in this place will I give shalom,' says the
LORD of Armies."
{2:10} In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second
year of Daryavesh, the Word of the LORD came by Chaggai the prophet,
saying, {2:11} "Thus says the LORD of Armies: Ask now the
[3>]kohanim[<3] concerning the law, saying, {2:12} 'If someone carries
holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread,
stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?'"
The [4>]kohanim[<4] answered, "No."
{2:13} Then Chaggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead
body touch any of these, will it be unclean?"
The [5>]kohanim[<5] answered, "It will be unclean."
{2:14} Then Chaggai answered, "'So is this people, and so is this
nation before me,' says the LORD; 'and so is every work of their
hands. That which they offer there is unclean. {2:15} Now, please
consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a
stone in the temple of the LORD. {2:16} Through all that time, when
one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one
came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty. {2:17}
I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your
hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says the LORD. {2:18} 'Consider,
please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the
ninth month, since the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple
was laid, consider it. {2:19} Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the
vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven't
brought forth. From this day will I bless you.'"
{2:20} The Word of the LORD came the second time to Chaggai in the
twenty-fourth day of the month, saying, {2:21} "Speak to Zerubbavel,
governor of Yehudah, saying, 'I will shake the heavens and the earth.
{2:22} I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I will destroy the
strength of the kingdoms of the nations. I will overthrow the
chariots, and those who ride in them. The horses and their riders will
come down, everyone by the sword of his brother. {2:23} In that day,
says the LORD of Armies, will I take you, Zerubbavel, my servant, the
son of She'alti'el,' says the LORD, 'and will make you as a signet,
for I have chosen you,' says the LORD of Armies."
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} high priest
[2] {1:12} high priest
[3] {1:14} high priest
[1] {2:2} high priest
[2] {2:4} high priest
[3] {2:11} priests
[4] {2:12} priests
[5] {2:13} priests
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