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 through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying :
2 Thus speaks the Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, The time has not yet come, the time for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt.
3 Then the word of the Jehovah came through Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 Is it time for you to live in your paneled houses, and this house is deserted?
5 For thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider well your ways.
6 You sow much, and reap little; you eat, and are not satisfied; you drink, and are not satisfied; you clothe yourselves, and are not warm; and he who works for wages receives his wages on deaf ears.
7 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and rebuild the house; and I will set my will on it, and I will be glorified, says the Lord.
9 You seek much, and find little; and lock yourself in the house, and I will dissipate it in a breath. Because? says the Lord of hosts. Because my house is deserted, and each of you runs to his own house.
10 Therefore the rain from the heavens stopped on you, and the earth stopped its fruits.
11 And I called a drought on this land, and on the mountains, on wheat, on wine, on oil, on all that the earth produces, on man and on beast, and on all work of hands.
12 And Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people heard the voice of the Jehovah their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Jehovah their God had sent him; and he the people feared before the Jehovah.
13 Then Haggai, the messenger of the Jehovah, spoke to the people at the command of the Jehovah, saying, “I am with you, says the Jehovah.”
14 And the Jehovah awakened the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people; and they came and worked in the house of the Lord of hosts, his God,
15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of king Darius.
1 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying:
2 Now speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the rest of the people, saying:
3 Who is left among you who has seen this house in its first glory, and how do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?
4 So now, Zerubbabel, be strong, says the Lord; Be strong also, Joshua son of Jehozadak, high priest; and take courage, all the people of the land, says the Lord, and work; for I am with you, says the Lord of hosts.
5 According to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt, so my Spirit will be among you, do not fear.
6 For thus says the Lord of hosts: From now on I will shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land;
7 and I will shake all nations, and the Desire of all nations will come; and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts.
8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts.
9 The latter glory of this house will be greater than the first, says the Lord of hosts; and I will give peace in this place, says the Lord of hosts.
10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai, saying:
11 Thus says the Lord of hosts: Now ask the priests about the law, saying:
12 If someone carries sanctified meat in the skirt of his garment, and with the flow of it he touches bread, or meat, or wine, or oil, or any other food, will it be sanctified? And the priests answered and said: No.
13 And Haggai said, If a man unclean because of a dead body touches any of these things, will it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, She shall be unclean.
14 And Haggai answered and said, Thus is this people and these people before me, saith the LORD; and likewise every work of his hands; and everything they offer here is unclean.
15 Now therefore meditate in your hearts from this day forward, before they lay one stone upon another in the temple of the Lord.
16 Before these things happened, twenty ephahs came to the heap, and there were ten; They came to the winepress to draw fifty jugs, and there were twenty.
17 I struck you with the east wind, with blight, and with hail in every work of your hands; but you did not turn to me, says the Lord.
18 Therefore, meditate in your hearts, from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid; meditate, therefore, in your heart.
19 Is not the seed still in the barn? Neither the vine, nor the fig tree, nor the pomegranate tree, nor the olive tree has yet blossomed; but from this day I will bless you.
20 The word of the LORD came to Haggai the second time on the twenty-fourth day of the same month, saying:
21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
22 and I will overthrow the throne of the kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; I will overturn the chariots and those who ride in them, and the horses and their riders will fall, each one by the sword of his brother.
23 In that day, says the Lord of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant, says the Lord, and I will make you a signet ring; for I have chosen you, says the Lord of hosts.
