Hag 1 | NASB1995 | STEP | 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 ,

Haggai 1

Haggai Begins Temple Building

1 In the ^asecond year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came by the prophet ^bHaggai to ^cZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^dgovernor of Judah, and to ^eJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2 “Thus says the Lord of ^{▼▼ Lit hosts, saying}hosts, ‘This people says, “The time has not come, even the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”’” 3 Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4 “Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house ^g lies desolate?” 5 Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, ^{▼▼ Lit Set your heart on}“Consider your ways! 6 “You have ⁱsown much, but ^{▼▼ Lit bring in}harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is ^{▼▼ Lit not becoming drunk}not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes.”

7 Thus says the Lord of hosts, ^{▼▼ Lit Set your heart on}“Consider your ways! 8 “Go up to the ^{▼▼ Lit mountain}mountains, bring wood and ⁿrebuild the ^{▼▼ Lit house}temple, that I may be ^ppleased with it and be ^qglorified,” says the Lord. 9 ^r“You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I ^sblow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of hosts, “Because of My house which ^t lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house. 10 “Therefore, because of you the ^usky has withheld ^{▼▼ Lit from dew}its dew and the earth has withheld its produce. 11 “I called for a ^wdrought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on ^xmen, on cattle, and on ^yall the labor of ^{▼▼ Lit the palms}your hands.”

12 Then ^aaZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and ^abJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, ^acobeyed 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 ^{▼▼ Lit feared before
,} ^aeshowed reverence for the Lord. 13 Then Haggai, the ^afmessenger of the Lord, spoke ^{▼▼ Or the message}by the commission of the Lord to the people saying, “‘ ^ahI am with you,’ declares the Lord.” 14 So the Lord stirred up the spirit of ^aiZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^ajgovernor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the ^akremnant of the people; and they came and ^alworked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.