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href="#fn.Haggai.1.1.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">a</span></a> <a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.1.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> came through the prophet<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.1.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.1.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a> the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest:<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.1.4"><span class="xrfAlphabet">d</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.2" /> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> to be rebuilt.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.2.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.3" /> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The word of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> came through the prophet Haggai: <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.4" /> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.4.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> while this house<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Haggai.1.4.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> lies in ruins? ” <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.5" /> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now, the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies says this: “Think carefully<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.5.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> about<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Haggai.1.5.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> your ways:</p><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.6" /> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>You have planted much</p><p class="poem">but harvested little.</p><p class="poem">You eat</p><p class="poem">but never have enough to be satisfied.</p><p class="poem">You drink</p><p class="poem">but never have enough to be happy.</p><p class="poem">You put on clothes</p><p class="poem">but never have enough to get warm.</p><p class="poem">The wage earner puts his wages</p><p class="poem">into a bag with a hole in it.”<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.6.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p></blockquote><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.7" /> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies says this: “Think carefully about your ways. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.8" /> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house; and I will be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>. <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.9" /> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Haggai.1.9.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a> it. Why? ” This is the declaration of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies. “Because my house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.</p><blockquote class="poetryblock"><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.10" /> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So on your account,<a epub:type="noteref" href="#fn.Haggai.1.10.1"><span class="fnAlphabet">A</span></a></p><p class="poem">the skies have withheld the dew</p><p class="poem">and the land its crops.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.10.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a></p><p class="poem"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.11" /> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>I have summoned a drought</p><p class="poem">on the fields and the hills,</p><p class="poem">on the grain, new wine, fresh oil,</p><p class="poem">and whatever the ground yields,</p><p class="poem">on people and animals,</p><p class="poem">and on all that your hands produce.”</p></blockquote><h3 class="head1">The People’s Response</h3><p class="noind"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.12" /> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then Zerubbabel<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.12.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> son of Shealtiel, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the entire remnant of the people<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.12.2"><span class="xrfAlphabet">b</span></a> obeyed the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> their God had sent him. So the people feared the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>.<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.12.3"><span class="xrfAlphabet">c</span></a></p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.13" /> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Then Haggai, the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s messenger, delivered the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s message to the people: “I am with you<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.13.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> — this is the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span>’s declaration.”</p><p class="scripture"><span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.14" /> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> roused the spirit<a epub:type="noteref" href="#xrf.Haggai.1.14.1"><span class="xrfAlphabet">a</span></a> of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the spirit of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. They began work on the house of the L<span class="smallcaps">ord</span> of Armies, their God, <span epub:type="z3998:verse" id="start-Haggai.1.15" /> <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.</p><br /><section id="footnotes-Haggai.1" class="fnSection"><aside id="fn.Haggai.1.1.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.1">1:1</a></span> King of Persia reigned 522–486 BC</aside><aside id="fn.Haggai.1.4.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.4">1:4</a></span> = the temple</aside><aside id="fn.Haggai.1.5.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.5">1:5</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">Place your heart on</span>, also in v. 7</aside><aside id="fn.Haggai.1.9.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.9">1:9</a></span> Lit <span class="italic">blew on</span></aside><aside id="fn.Haggai.1.10.1"><span class="footnote-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.10">1:10</a></span> Or <span class="italic">So above you</span></aside><br /><section id="cross-references-Haggai.1" class="xrfSection"><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.1.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.1">1:1</a></span> Ezr 4:5; Neh 12:22; Dn 9:11; 11:1; Hg 1:15; 2:10; Zch 1:1,7; 7:1</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.1.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.1">1:1</a></span> Ezr 5:1; 6:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.1.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.1">1:1</a></span> 1Ch 3:19; Ezr 3:2,8; 5:2; Neh 12:1; Hg 1:12,14; 2:2,23; Lk 3:27</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.1.4"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.1">1:1</a></span> Hg 1:12,14; 2:2,4; Zch 3:1,8; 6:11</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.2.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.2">1:2</a></span> Ezr 1:3</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.4.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.4">1:4</a></span> 1Kg 7:7; Jr 22:14</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.5.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.5">1:5</a></span> Hg 2:15,18</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.6.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.6">1:6</a></span> Lv 26:20; Dt 28:38–40</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.10.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.10">1:10</a></span> Lv 26:20; Dt 11:17</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.12.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.12">1:12</a></span> 1Ch 13:9; Ezr 3:8; Neh 12:1; Hg 2:2; Zch 4:6</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.12.2"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.12">1:12</a></span> Is 10:20–21; Jr 41:10; Hg 2:2</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.12.3"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.12">1:12</a></span> Ex 14:31; Dt 4:10; 1Sm 12:18</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.13.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.13">1:13</a></span> Hg 2:4</aside><aside id="xrf.Haggai.1.14.1"><span class="cross-reference"><a href="#start-Haggai.1.14">1:14</a></span> 1Ch 5:26; Ezr 1:1,5; Is 13:17; 14:9; 41:10; 45:13; Jr 51:11</aside><br /><section id="study-notes-Haggai.1" class="snSection"><br /></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Christian Standard Bible. 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