Haggai 1
The Lord spoke through Haggai, rebuking the people for prioritizing their own homes over rebuilding the temple, saying they had sown much but reaped little due to their neglect of God's house. The people were called to set their hearts on their ways and ascend to the mountain to gather wood and build the temple, which would be acceptable to the Lord. The Lord had withheld dew and caused a drought as a result of the temple's desolation, but after the people heeded the voice of the Lord and the words of Haggai, the Lord stirred their spirits and they began work on the temple on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month.
1In the second year of king Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came, by the hand of Haggai the prophet, to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Jesus the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying2Thus says the Lord of hosts, saying: This people claims that the time has not yet arrived for building the house of the Lord3But the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying4Is it time for you to dwell in paneled houses, while this house is deserted5And now, thus says the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways6You sowed much and have brought in little. You consumed and have not been satisfied. You drank and have not been inebriated. You covered yourselves and have not been warmed. And whoever gathered wages, has put them in a bag with holes7Thus says the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways8Ascend to the mountain, bring wood and build the house, and it shall be acceptable to me, and I shall be glorified, says the Lord9You have looked for more, and behold, it became less, and you brought it home, and I blew it away. What is the cause of this, says the Lord of hosts? It is because my house is desolate, yet you have hurried, each one to his own house10Because of this, the heavens over you have been prohibited from giving dew, and the earth has been prohibited from giving her sprouts11And I called a drought over the land, and over the mountains, and over the wheat, and over the wine, and over the oil, and whatever the soil would bring forth, and over men, and over beasts of burden, and over all the labor of hands12And Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jesus the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people heeded the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, just as the Lord their God sent him to them. And the people were fearful before the face of the Lord13And Haggai, a messenger of the Lord among messengers of the Lord, spoke to the people, saying: the Lord says, "I am with you.14And the Lord stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Jesus the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the remainder of all the people. And they entered and performed work in the house of the Lord of hosts their God15on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of king Darius.
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