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Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

Then spake Haggai the Lord's messenger in the Lord's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the Lord.

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?

In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built.

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.

And again the word of the Lord came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel , governor of Judah , and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak , the high priest , saying,

Speak to Zerubbabel , governor of Judah , saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai , saying,

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 Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the Lord.

In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

Then said Haggai , If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

Then answered Haggai , and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt , so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.

And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord: