Haggai 1

¹In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord

²“Thus speaks the Lord

³Then the word of the Lord

⁴“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?”

⁵Now therefore, thus says the Lord

⁶“You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

⁷Thus says the Lord

⁸Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord

⁹“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord

¹⁰Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

¹¹For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your 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 the Lord

¹³Then Haggai, the Lord

¹⁴So the Lord

¹⁵on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.