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 .

 12  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 .

 13  Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet saying 
.

 14  Is it time for you O ye to dwell in your ceiled houses and 
this house lie waste .

 15  Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts Consider your 
ways .

 16  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 .

 17  Thus saith the LORD of hosts Consider your ways .

 18  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 .

 19  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 .

 110  Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew and the 
earth is stayed from her fruit .

 111  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 .

 112  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 .

 113  Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S 
message unto the people saying I am with you saith the LORD .

 114  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 .

 115  In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month in the 
second year of Darius the king .

* 21  In the seventh month in the one and twentieth day of the 
month came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai saying .

 22  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 .

 23  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 .

 24  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 .

 25  According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye 
came out of Egypt so my spirit remaineth among you fear ye not .

 26  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 .

 27  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 .

 28  The silver is mine and the gold is mine saith the LORD of 
hosts .

 29  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 .

 210  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 .

 211  Thus saith the LORD of hosts Ask now the priests 
concerning the law saying .

 212  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 .

 213  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 .

 214  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 .

 215  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 .

 216  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 .

 217  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 .

 218  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 .

 219  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 .

 220  And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the 
four and twentieth day of the month saying .

 221  Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah saying I will shake 
the heavens and the earth .

 222  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 .

 223  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 .

  

 

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