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Haggai 1:1-15 — A Call to Build the House of the Lord

Hag.1.1-15

¹In the second year of the reign 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 son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying: ²“Thus says the LORD of Hosts: These people say, 'The time has not yet come, the time for the house of the LORD to be built.'” ³Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying: ⁴“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?” ⁵Now therefore, thus says the LORD of Hosts: "Consider your ways! ⁶You have sown much, but bring in little. You eat, but do not have enough. You drink, but are not filled. You put on clothes, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages earns them to put into a bag with holes." ⁷Thus says the LORD of Hosts: "Consider your ways! ⁸Go up to the mountains, bring in timber, and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and 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 runs to his own house. ¹⁰Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. ¹¹And I have called for a drought upon the land and upon the mountains, upon the grain, the new wine, the oil, and upon whatever the ground brings forth, upon man and beast, and upon all the labor of your hands." ¹²Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and 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. ¹³Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke the message of the LORD to the people, saying, “I am with you, declares the LORD.” ¹⁴And 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 did work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God, ¹⁵on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month , in the second year of King Darius.

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4/11/2026

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