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, 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. 3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai
the prophet, saying, 4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell
in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? 5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of
hosts; Consider your ways. 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. 7 Thus
saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 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. 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.
10 Therefore
the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her
fruit. 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. 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. 13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger
in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the
LORD. 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, 15 In the four and twentieth day of the
sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.