Haggai 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 Josedek, the high priest, saying, 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. Then came the word
of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Is it time for you, O
ye, to dwell in your sealed houses, and this house lie waste? Now
therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts, consider your ways.
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. Thus saith the Lord of hosts.
Consider your ways. Go up to the mountains, and bring
wood, and build the house. And I will take pleasure in it,
and I will be glorified, saith the Lord. He looked for much,
and lo, it came to little, and when he 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 to his own house. Therefore the
heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed
from her fruit. And I call 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 labor
of the hands. Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,
and Joshua, the son of Josedek, 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 spake Haggai,
the Lord's messenger, in the Lord's message unto the people,
saying, I am with you, saith the Lord. And the Lord stirred
up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor
of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Josatech, 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, in the fourth and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the
second year of Darius the king. Haggai chapter 2 In the seventh
month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word
of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying, Speak now to Zerubbabel
the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son
of Joseph the high priest, and to the residue of the people,
saying, 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? Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel,
saith the Lord, and be strong, O Joshua, son of Joseph the high
priest, and be strong, O ye people of the land, saith the Lord,
and work. For I am with you, saith the
Lord of hosts. According to the word that I
covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth
among you. Fear ye not. 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, 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. "'The silver is mine, and the
gold is mine,' saith the Lord of Hosts. "'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." In the fourth and twentieth day
of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word
of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of
Hosts, And now the priests, concerning the law, saying, 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. 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. 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. 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, Since those days were,
when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten.
When one came to the press-fat for to draw out fifty vessels
out of the press, there were but twenty. I smote you with
blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours
of your hands, yet ye turned not unto me, saith the Lord. Consider now from this day and
upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even
from the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid,
consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn?
Yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate,
and the olive tree hath not brought forth. From this day will I bless
you. And again the word of the Lord
came unto Haggai in the fourth and twentieth day of the month,
saying Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying I will shake
the heavens and the earth and I will overthrow the throne of
kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms
of the heathen, and I will overthrow the chariots and those that ride
in them, and the horses and their riders shall come down, every
one by the sword of his brother. In that day, saith the Lord of
Hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel,
saith the Lord, and I will make thee as a signet. For I have
chosen thee, saith the Lord of Hosts.