“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.” (Haggai 1:1-15 AV)