Haggai 1

Berean Standard Bible

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In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, and Joshua, the high priest. The Lord questioned why the people lived in paneled houses while His own house lay in ruins, noting that their agricultural efforts and earnings had yielded little because of a drought He summoned upon the land. In response to Haggai's message, Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the remnant of the people obeyed the Lord and feared Him. Subsequently, the Lord stirred their spirits, and on the twenty-fourth day of the same month, they began working on the house of the Lord of Hosts.

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¹In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating ²that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’” ³Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying: ⁴“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?” ⁵Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways. ⁶You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.” ⁷This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways. ⁸Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD. ⁹You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house. ¹⁰Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops. ¹¹I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.” ¹²Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD. ¹³Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD. ¹⁴So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God, ¹⁵on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.

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