Haggai 1:1-6 (New American Standard)
View In My BibleHaggai Begins Temple Building
1 In the 1second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet 2Haggai to 3Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, 4governor of Judah, and to 5Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2 "Thus says the LORD of ahosts, 'This people says, "The time has not come, even the time for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt.""' 3 Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4 "Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house 6lies desolate ?" 5 Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, "bConsider your ways ! 6 "You have 7sown much, but charvest little ; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied ; you drink, but there is dnot enough to become drunk ; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes."New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California. All rights reserved. (New American Standard Version - Holy Bible)
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