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Haggai, starting at chapter 1
{1:1} In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in
the first day of the month, the Word of [1>]the LORD[<1] came by
Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of
Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
{1:2} "This is what the LORD of Hosts 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 Haggai, 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 Hosts 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 Hosts 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 Hosts,
"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 livestock, and
on all the labor of the hands."
{1:12} Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of
Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed
the voice of the LORD, their [2>]God[<2], and the words of Haggai, the
prophet, as the LORD, their God, had sent him; and the people feared
the LORD.
{1:13} Then Haggai, the LORD's messenger, spoke the LORD's message
to the people, saying, "I am with you," says the LORD.
{1:14} The LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of
Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of
Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the
people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of Hosts,
their God, {1:15} in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth
month, in the second year of Darius the king.
{2:1} In the seventh month, in the twenty-first day of the month,
the Word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying, {2:2} "Speak
now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to
Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, 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, Zerubbabel,' says the LORD. 'Be
strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you
people of the land,' says the LORD, 'and work, for I am with you,'
says the LORD of Hosts. {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 Hosts 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 Hosts. {2:8} The silver is mine, and the
gold is mine,' says the LORD of Hosts. {2:9} 'The latter glory of this
house will be greater than the former,' says the LORD of Hosts; 'and
in this place will I give peace,' says the LORD of Hosts."
{2:10} In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second
year of Darius, the Word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet,
saying, {2:11} "Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Ask now the priests
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 priests answered, "No."
{2:13} Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead
body touch any of these, will it be unclean?"
The priests answered, "It will be unclean."
{2:14} Then Haggai 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 Haggai in the
twenty-fourth day of the month, saying, {2:21} "Speak to Zerubbabel,
governor of Judah, 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 Hosts, will I take you, Zerubbabel, my servant, the
son of Shealtiel,' says the LORD, 'and will make you as a signet, for
I have chosen you,' says the LORD of Hosts."
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Footnotes:
[1] {1:1} "LORD" or "GOD" (all capital letters) indicate the 4-letter
Holy Name of God
[2] {1:12} The Hebrew word rendered "God" is "Elohim."
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