1 Scroll 11 The 12 Prophets (Haggai).
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 the hand of Haggai the prophet,
to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah,
and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the High Priest, saying,
2 Thus says the LORD of Sabaoth, saying,
This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's House should be built.
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Then came the word of the LORD by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 Is it time for you, ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?
5 And now thus says the LORD of Sabaoth;
Set your heart to 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 yourselves, but there is none warm;
and he who earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7 Thus says the LORD of Sabaoth;
Set your heart to your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood,
and build the house; and I shall take pleasure in it,
and I shall be glorified, said the LORD.
9 Ye looked for much, and behold, it came to little;
and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it.
Why? Says the LORD of Sabaoth.
Because of My house that is waste,
and ye run every man to 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 grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil,
and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men,
and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
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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 spoke Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message to the people,
saying, I AM with you, said 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 performed work in the House of the LORD of Sabaoth, their God,
15 in the twenty fourth day of the same month, in the second year of Darius the king.
1 In the seventh month, in the twenty first day of the month,
came the word of the LORD by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,
2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah,
and to Joshua the son of Josedech the High Priest,
and to all the residue of the people, saying,
3 Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory?
And how do ye see it now? Is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?
4 Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel, said the LORD;
and be strong, Joshua, son of Josedech, the High Priest;
and be strong, all people of the land, said the LORD,
and work: for I AM with you, says the LORD of Sabaoth.
5 According to the word that I Covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so My Spirit remains among you: fear ye not.
6 For thus says the LORD of Sabaoth;
Yet once, it is a little while, and I shall shake the Heaven, and the Earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
7 and I shall shake all nations, and they shall come to the desire of all nations: and I shall fill this house with glory, says the LORD of Sabaoth.
8 The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, says the LORD of Sabaoth.
9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, says the LORD of Sabaoth:
and in this place I shall give peace, says the LORD of Sabaoth.
10 In the twenty fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius,
came the word of the LORD by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,
11 Thus says the LORD of Sabaoth,
Ask now the priests concerning the Law, saying,
12 If one shall bear Holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt shall touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be Holy?
And the priests answered and said, No.
13 Then said Haggai,
If an unclean soul shall touch any of these, shall it be unclean?
And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, said the LORD;
and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
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And now, I pray you, set your heart from this day and upward,
from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the Temple of the LORD:
16 since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten:
when one came to the winepress to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to Me, said the LORD.
18 Set your heart now from this day and upward,
from the twenty fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the LORD's Temple was laid. Set your heart.
19 Is the seed yet in the barn? And as yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, has not brought forth: from this day shall I bless you.
20 Then came the word of the LORD again to Haggai in the twenty fourth day of the month, saying,
21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I shall shake the Heavens and the Earth;
22 and I shall overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I shall destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen: and I shall overthrow the chariots,
and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.
23 In that day, says the LORD of Sabaoth, shall I take Thee, Zerubbabel, My servant, the son of Shealtiel, said the LORD,
and shall make Thee as a signet; for I have chosen Thee, says the LORD of Sabaoth.