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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 ESV</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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/haggai/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Command to Rebuild the Temple</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then the word of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now, therefore, thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts: Consider your ways. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Thus says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts: Consider your ways. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.”</p> <p class="heading">The People Obey the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span></p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then 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 <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> their God had sent him. And the people feared the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Haggai, the messenger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, spoke to the people with the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s message, “I am with you, declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> 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 the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts, their God, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/haggai/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. 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