CHAPTER 11 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.
CHAPTER 2
1 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth
day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, 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 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, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua,
son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land,
saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts:
5
According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt,
so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
6 For thus saith the LORD
of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and
the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
7 And I will shake all nations,
and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with
glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,
saith the LORD of hosts.
9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater
than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give
peace, saith the LORD of hosts.
10 In the four and twentieth day of the
ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai
the prophet, saying,
11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests
concerning the law, saying,
12 If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his
garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil,
or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
13
Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body 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, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that
which they offer there is unclean.
15 And now, I pray you, consider 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 an heap of twenty
measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for 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, saith the LORD.
18 Consider now from this day
and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from
the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.
19
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and
the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day
will I bless you.
20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in
the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
21 Speak to Zerubbabel,
governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
22 And
I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength
of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will 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, saith the LORD of hosts,
will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the
LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD
of hosts.