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1 : 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of theLordcame by the hand of Haggai the prophet toZerubbabel the son ofShealtiel, governor of Judah, and toJoshua the son ofJehozadak, the high priest:
1 : 2 Thus says theLordof hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of theLord.
1 : 3 Then the word of theLordcameby the hand of Haggai the prophet,
1 : 4 Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, whilethis house lies in ruins?
1 : 5 Now, therefore, thus says theLordof hosts:Consider your ways.
1 : 6 You have sown much, and harvested little.You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he whoearns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
1 : 7 Thus says theLordof hosts:Consider your ways.
1 : 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, thatI may take pleasure in it and thatI may be glorified, says theLord.
1 : 9 You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home,I blew it away. Why? declares theLordof hosts. Because of my housethat lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.
1 : 10 Thereforethe heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.
1 : 11 AndI have called for a drought on the land and the hills, onthe grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, andon all their labors.
1 : 12 ThenZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, andJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with allthe remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of theLordtheir God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as theLordtheir God had sent him. And the people feared theLord.
1 : 13 Then Haggai, the messenger of theLord, spoke to the people with theLord's message,I am with you, declares theLord.
1 : 14 AndtheLordstirred up the spirit ofZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit ofJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of allthe remnant of the people. And they came andworked on the house of theLordof hosts, their God,
1 : 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.