Haggai 1:2-12

English Standard Version

² “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.” ³ Then the word of the Lord came ^(A)by the hand of Haggai the prophet, ^4 (B)“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while ^(C)this house lies in ruins? ⁵ Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(D)Consider your ways. ^6 (E)You have sown much, and harvested little. ^(F)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 ^(G)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

⁷ “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(H)Consider your ways. ⁸ Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that ^(I)I may take pleasure in it and that ^(J)I may be glorified, says the Lord. ^9 (K)You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, ^(L)I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house ^(M)that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. ¹⁰ Therefore ^(N)the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. ¹¹ And ^(O)I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on ^(P)the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and ^(Q)on all their labors.”

The People Obey the Lord

^12 (R)Then ^(S)Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and ^(T)Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all ^(U)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.