The Bible

Haggai Chapter 1

¹In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of ForeverOne came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, ²"This is what ForeverOne of Armies says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for ForeverOne's house to be built.'" ³Then the Word of ForeverOne came by Haggai, the prophet, saying, ⁴"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

⁵Now therefore this is what ForeverOne of Armies says: Consider your ways.

⁶You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it." ⁷This is what ForeverOne of Armies says: "Consider your ways.

⁸Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says ForeverOne.

⁹"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says ForeverOne of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

¹⁰Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

¹¹I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands." ¹²Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of ForeverOne, their God, and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as ForeverOne, their God, had sent him; and the people feared ForeverOne.

¹³Then Haggai, ForeverOne's messenger, spoke ForeverOne's message to the people, saying, "I am with you," says ForeverOne.

¹⁴ForeverOne stirred up 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 remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of ForeverOne of Armies, their God, ¹⁵in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.