Thematic Bible
Haggai 1:1 (show verse)
In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest:
Haggai 1:2 (show verse)
“The Lord of Hosts says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”
Haggai 1:3 (show verse)
The word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet:
Haggai 1:4 (show verse)
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
Haggai 1:5 (show verse)
Now, the Lord of Hosts says this: “Think carefully about your ways:
Haggai 1:6 (show verse)
but harvested little.
You eat
but never have enough to be satisfied.
You drink
but never have enough to become drunk.
You put on clothes
but never have enough to get warm.
The wage earner puts his wages
into a bag with a hole in it.”
Haggai 1:7 (show verse)
The Lord of Hosts says this: “Think carefully about your ways.
Haggai 1:8 (show verse)
Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house. Then I will be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the Lord.
Haggai 1:9 (show verse)
“You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why?” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. “Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
Haggai 1:10 (show verse)
the skies have withheld the dew
and the land its crops.
Haggai 1:11 (show verse)
on the fields and the hills,
on the grain, new wine, olive oil,
and whatever the ground yields,
on man and beast,
and on all that your hands produce.”
Haggai 1:12 (show verse)
Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the entire remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. So the people feared the Lord.
Haggai 1:13 (show verse)
Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, delivered the Lord’s message to the people, “I am with you”—this is the Lord’s declaration.
Haggai 1:14 (show verse)
The Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the spirit of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. They began work on the house of Yahweh of Hosts, their God,
Haggai 1:15 (show verse)
on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.