Haggai 1
The full text of Haggai 1 in the Trinity Bible Version — clear modern English, translated from the original Hebrew. Free to read.
1 In 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 son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest:
2 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: This people says, 'The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.'"
3 Then the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet:
4 "Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
5 Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways!
6 You have sown much and harvested little.
You eat, but you never have enough.
You drink, but you never have your fill.
You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm.
And he who earns wages
earns wages to put them into a bag with holes."
7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider your ways!
8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified," says the LORD.
9 "You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" declares the LORD of hosts. "Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.
10 Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.
11 And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground produces, on man and beast, and on all their labors."
12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua son of Jehozadak, 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 feared the LORD.
13 Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD's message: "I am with you," declares the LORD.
14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
15 on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
Translation notes (2)
- Haggai 1:1a This date, August 29, 520 BC, shows that the book of Haggai is precisely dated, with all its prophetic messages falling within a four-month period.
- Haggai 1:6a This is a vivid image of economic futility, representing a covenant curse for neglecting God's house.
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