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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Haggai 1 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/haggai/1.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/haggai/1-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Haggai 1</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../zephaniah/3.htm" title="Zephaniah 3">◄</a> Haggai 1 <a href="../haggai/2.htm" title="Haggai 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/haggai/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">A Call to Rebuild the Temple</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>On August 29<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> of the second year of King Darius’s reign, the LORD gave a message through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Jeshua<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> son of Jehozadak, the high priest.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: The people are saying, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then the LORD sent this message through the prophet Haggai: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have planted much but harvest little. You eat but are not satisfied. You drink but are still thirsty. You put on clothes but cannot keep warm. Your wages disappear as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes!</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Now go up into the hills, bring down timber, and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, while all of you are busy building your own fine houses. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I have called for a drought on your fields and hills—a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.”</p><p class="hdg">Obedience to God’s Call</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of God’s people began to obey the message from the LORD their God. When they heard the words of the prophet Haggai, whom the LORD their God had sent, the people feared the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Haggai, the LORD’s messenger, gave the people this message from the LORD: “I am with you, says the LORD!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>So the LORD sparked the enthusiasm of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the enthusiasm of Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the enthusiasm of the whole remnant of God’s people. They began to work on the house of their God, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>on September 21<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> of the second year of King Darius’s reign.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:1a </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">On the first day of the sixth month,</span><span class="ft"> of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. A number of dates in Haggai can be cross-checked with dates in surviving Persian records and related accurately to our modern calendar. This event occurred on August 29, 520 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:1b </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Joshua,</span><span class="ft"> a variant spelling of Jeshua; also in 1:12, 14.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">1:15 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month,</span><span class="ft"> of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This event occurred on September 21, 520 </span><span class="sc">b.c.</span><span class="ft">; also see note on 1:1a.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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