Haggai 1:2-2:9

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² This is what the Lord Almighty^(A) says: “These people^(B) say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the Lord’s house.^(C)’”

³ Then the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai:^{(D) 4} “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses,^(E) while this house remains a ruin?^(F)”

⁵ Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought^(G) to your ways. ⁶ You have planted much, but harvested little.^(H) You eat, but never have enough.^(I) You drink, but never have your fill.^(J) You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages,^(K) only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

⁷ This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought^(L) to your ways. ⁸ Go up into the mountains and bring down timber^(M) and build my house, so that I may take pleasure^(N) in it and be honored,^(O)” says the Lord. ⁹ “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little.^(P) What you brought home, I blew^(Q) away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin,^(R) while each of you is busy with your own house. ¹⁰ Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld^(S) their dew^(T) and the earth its crops.^{(U) 11} I called for a drought^(V) on the fields and the mountains,^(W) on the grain, the new wine,^(X) the olive oil^(Y) and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.^(Z)”

¹² Then Zerubbabel^(AA) son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant^(AB) of the people obeyed^(AC) the voice of the Lord their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared^(AD) the Lord.

¹³ Then Haggai,^(AE) the Lord’s messenger,^(AF) gave this message of the Lord to the people: “I am with^(AG) you,” declares the Lord. ¹⁴ So the Lord stirred up^(AH) the spirit of Zerubbabel^(AI) son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak,^(AJ) the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant^(AK) of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the Lord Almighty, their God, ¹⁵ on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month.^(AL)

The Promised Glory of the New House

In the second year of King Darius,^(AM) 2 ¹ on the twenty-first day of the seventh month,^(AN) the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai:^{(AO) 2} “Speak to Zerubbabel^(AP) son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jozadak,^[a](AQ) the high priest, and to the remnant^(AR) of the people. Ask them, ³ ‘Who of you is left who saw this house^(AS) in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing?^{(AT) 4} But now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ declares the Lord. ‘Be strong,^(AU) Joshua son of Jozadak,^(AV) the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ declares the Lord, ‘and work. For I am with^(AW) you,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ⁵ ‘This is what I covenanted^(AX) with you when you came out of Egypt.^(AY) And my Spirit^(AZ) remains among you. Do not fear.’^(BA)

⁶ “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In a little while^(BB) I will once more shake the heavens and the earth,^(BC) the sea and the dry land. ⁷ I will shake all nations, and what is desired^(BD) by all nations will come, and I will fill this house^(BE) with glory,^(BF)’ says the Lord Almighty. ⁸ ‘The silver is mine and the gold^(BG) is mine,’ declares the Lord Almighty. ⁹ ‘The glory^(BH) of this present house^(BI) will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,^(BJ)’ declares the Lord Almighty.”