The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Haggai 1
1 In the second year of Darius the king,
in the sixth month, in the first day of
the month, Yahweh’s† word 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,
2 “This is what Yahweh of Armies says:
These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet
come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be
built.’ ”
3 Then Yahweh’s word came by Haggai
the prophet, saying,
4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell
in your paneled houses, while this house
lies waste?
5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of
Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
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.’
7 “This is what Yahweh of Armies says:
‘Consider your ways.
8 Goup to themountain, bring wood, and
build the house. I will take pleasure in it,
and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.
9 “You looked for much, and, behold,‡ it
came to little; and when you brought it
home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh
of Armies, “Because of my house that lies
waste, while each of you is busy with his
own house.
10 Therefore for your sake the heavens
withhold the dew, and the earth withholds
its fruit.
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
produces, on men, on livestock, and on all
the labor of the hands.
12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel
and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high
priest, with all the remnant of the people,
obeyed Yahweh their God’s§ voice, and the
words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh
their God had sent him; and the people
feared Yahweh.
13 Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger,
spoke Yahweh’s message to the people,
saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.
14 Yahweh 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 Yahweh
of Armies, their God,
15 in the twenty-fourth day of the month,
in the sixth month, in the second year of
Darius the king.