(KJV) Haggai 1¹

⥃A Call to Rebuild the Temple ^{[ Ezra 5:1–5 ]}

[1] In the second² year of Darius the king, in the sixth³ month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai⁴ the prophet unto⁵ Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor⁶ of Judah, and to Joshua⁷ the son of Josedech⁸, the high priest, saying, [2] Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This⁹ people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built. [3] Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai¹⁰ the prophet, saying, [4] [Is it] time for you, O ye, to¹¹ dwell in your cieled houses, and¹² this house [lie] waste? [5] Now therefore thus¹³ saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways¹⁴. [6] Ye have¹⁵ sown much, and bring in little; ye eat¹⁶, 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 holes¹⁷.

[7] [¶]Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.¹⁸ [8] Go up to¹⁹ the mountain, and bring wood, and build²⁰ the house; and I will take²¹ pleasure in it, and I will be²² glorified, saith the Lord. [9] Ye looked²³ for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it²⁴. Why²⁵? saith the Lord of hosts. Because²⁶ of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. [10] Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed [from] her fruit.²⁷ [11] And I called²⁸ 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 all²⁹ the labour of the hands.

⥃The People Obey

[12] Then Zerubbabel³⁰ the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, 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 did fear³¹ before the Lord. [13] Then spake Haggai the Lord’s³² messenger in the Lord’s message unto the people, saying, I [am³³] with you, saith the Lord. [14] And the Lord stirred³⁴ up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of³⁵ Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they³⁶ came and did work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, [15] In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. ³⁷