Read Haggai 1

World English Bible · 15 verses

1. ¹ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ Then Yahweh’s word came by Haggai the prophet, saying,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ “This is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh their God’s voice, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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