Haggai 1
The People Urged to
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In the second year of Dari'us the king,
in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of
the LORD by Hag'gai Ezra 4.24--5.2 ; 6.14 the
prophet unto Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, governor of Judah,
and to Joshua the son of Jos'edech, the high priest,
saying,
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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.
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Then came the word of the LORD by Hag'gai the prophet, saying,
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Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell
in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?
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Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
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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.
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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
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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.
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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.
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Therefore the heaven over you is stayed
from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
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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 labor of the
hands.
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Then Zerub'babel the son of
She-al'ti-el, and Joshua the son of Jos'edech, the high priest, with
all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Hag'gai the prophet,
as the LORD their God had sent him, and the
people did fear before the LORD.
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Then spake Hag'gai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's
message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the
LORD.
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And the LORD stirred
up the spirit of Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, governor of
Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jos'edech, 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,
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in the four and twentieth day of the
sixth month, in the second year of Dari'us the
king.
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