<< Haggai 1 >>
King James Bible: Purple Letter Edition | |
1In 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 Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
2Thus speaketh the
LORD of hosts, saying: This people say, The time is not come, the time that the
LORD's house should be built.
3Then came the word of the
LORD by Haggai, the prophet, saying,
4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your overlaid houses, and this house
lie waste?
5Now, therefore, thus saith the
LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
6Ye 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
yourselves {you}, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages
to put it into a bag with holes.
7Thus saith the
LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
8Go 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.
9Ye 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.
10Therefore, the heaven
s over you
withhold the {is stayed from} dew, and the earth
withholds {is stayed from} her fruit.
11And
I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the
grain, 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.
12Then 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 God, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as the LORD, their God, had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
13Then spoke Haggai, the LORD's messenger, in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
14And 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 did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
15In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius, the king.
