Haggai:1

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* In the second year of king Darius , in the sixth month , on the first day of the month , came the word of the Lord through means of Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealthiel , the governor of Judah , and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak , the high priest , saying , * Thus hath said the Lord of hosts , saying , This people have said , The time is not yet come , the time for the Lord ’s house to be built . * And the word of the Lord came by means of Haggai the prophet , saying , * Is it time for you , O ye , to dwell in your ceiled houses , while this house lieth in ruins ? * Now therefore , thus hath said the Lord of hosts , Direct your heart unto your ways . * Ye have sown much , and bring in little ; ye eat , but it doth not satisfy hunger ; ye drink , but it doth not appease thirst ; ye clothe yourselves , but no one is warm ; and he that earneth something earneth it for a bag with holes . * Thus hath said the Lord of hosts , Direct your heart to your ways . * Go up to the mountain , and bring wood , and build the house : that I may take pleasure in it , and be glorified , saith the Lord . * ye looked for much , and lo , it came to be little ; and when ye brought it home , I blew upon it . For what cause ? saith the Lord of hosts . Because of my house that lieth in ruins , while ye run every man unto his own house . * Therefore do the heavens for your sake withhold the dew , and the earth withholdeth her products . * And I called for a drought over the land , and over the mountains , and over the corn , and over the new wine , and over the oil , and over what the ground bringeth forth , and over men , and over cattle , and over all the labor of the hands . * Then hearkened Zerubbabel the son of Shealthiel , and Joshua the son of Jehozadak , the high priest , with all the remnant of the people , unto the voice of the Lord their God , and to the words of Haggai the prophet , as the Lord their God had sent him , and the people were afraid of the Lord . * Then said Haggai the messenger of the Lord by the Lord ’s message unto the people saying , I am with you , saith the Lord . * And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealthiel , the 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 did work on the house of the Lord of hosts , their God . * On the four and twentieth day of the sixth month , in the second year of king Darius .

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