1:1 In the second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
1:2 “This is what the LORD of armies ①says: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt.” ’ ”
▷ ①Lit says, saying
1:3 Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
1:4 “Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house remains desolate?”
1:5 Now then, the LORD of armies says this: “ ①Consider your ways!
▷ ①Lit Set your heart on
1:6 You have sown much, only to ①harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but there is not enough for ②anyone to get warm; and the one who earns, earns wages to put into a money bag full of holes.”
▷ ①Lit bring in ②Lit him
1:7 The LORD of armies says this: “ ①Consider your ways!
▷ ①Lit Set your heart on
1:8 Go up to the ①mountains, bring wood, and rebuild the ②temple, that I may be pleased with it and be honored,” says the LORD.
▷ ①Lit mountain ②Lit house
1:9 “You ①start an ambitious project, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the LORD of armies. “It is because of My house which remains desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.
▷ ①Lit turn to much
1:10 Therefore, because of you the sky has withheld ①its dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.
▷ ①Lit from dew
1:11 And I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on mankind, on cattle, and on all the products of the labor of ①your hands.”
▷ ①Lit palms
1:12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, 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, just as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people ①showed reverence for the LORD.
▷ ①Lit feared before
1:13 Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke ①by the commission of the LORD to the people, saying, “ ‘I am with you,’ declares the LORD.”
▷ ①Or with the commissioned message
1:14 So the LORD 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 the LORD of armies, their God,
1:15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.