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 Josedech, the high priest, saying, See also: Ezra 2:2 Ezra 3:2 Ezra 3:8 Nehemiah 7:7 Haggai 1:12
2 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. See also: Ezra 4:23 Nehemiah 4:10 Ecclesiastes 9:10 Numbers 13:31 Ecclesiastes 11:4
3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying, See also: Ezra 5:1 Zechariah 1:1
4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? See also: 2 Samuel 7:2 Psalms 132:3-5 Philippians 2:21 Haggai 1:9 Matthew 6:33
5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. See also: Lamentations 3:40 2 Corinthians 13:5 Haggai 1:7 Haggai 2:15-18 Luke 15:17
6 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. See also: Haggai 1:9 Deuteronomy 28:38-40 Hosea 4:10 Hosea 8:7 Haggai 2:16
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. See also: Psalms 119:59-60 Haggai 1:5 Philippians 3:1 Isaiah 28:10
8 Go 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. See also: Psalms 132:13-14 2 Chronicles 7:16 2 Chronicles 2:8-10 Haggai 2:7 Exodus 29:43
9 Ye 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. See also: Haggai 1:4 Haggai 2:16-17 Malachi 2:2 Revelation 3:19 Psalms 77:5-10
10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. See also: 1 Kings 8:35 Leviticus 26:19 Deuteronomy 28:23-24 1 Kings 17:1 Joel 1:18-20
11 And I called 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 labour of the hands. See also: Haggai 2:17 Deuteronomy 28:22 1 Kings 17:1 2 Kings 8:1 Job 34:29
12 ¶ Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, 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. See also: Isaiah 50:10 Ezra 5:2 Psalms 112:1 Haggai 1:14 Proverbs 1:7
13 Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD. See also: Isaiah 43:2 Matthew 28:20 Romans 8:31 Psalms 46:11 Isaiah 41:10
14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, 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, See also: 2 Chronicles 36:22 Hebrews 13:21 Ezra 1:1 Ezra 1:5 Haggai 1:1
15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. See also: Haggai 1:1 Haggai 2:1 Haggai 2:10 Haggai 2:20