The Book of Haggai! verse by verse...

[kerrylee]

Haggai 1:1
On the first day of the sixth month of the second year in the reign of King Darius of Persia, GOD's Message was delivered by the prophet Haggai to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and to the high priest, Joshua son of Jehozadak:

 

[worldwatcher]

Haggai 1:2
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.

 

[doc329]

Haggai 1:3 (KJV) Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

 

[barb754]

Haggai 1:4 (KJV)
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

 

[kerrylee]

Haggai 1:5
And then a little later, GOD-of-the-Angel-Armies spoke out again: "Take a good, hard look at your life. Think it over.

 

[doc329]

Haggai 1:6 (KJV)
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.

 

[worldwatcher]

Haggai 1:7
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

 

[Glenda]

Hag 1:8 Go up the mountain and bring wood and build this house. And I will be pleased with it, and I will be glorified, says Jehovah.

 

[doc329]

Haggai 1:9 (KJV) 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.

 

[worldwatcher]

Haggai 1:10
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

 

[doc329]

Haggai 1:11 (KJV) 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.

 

[bgoddenia]

Haggai 1:12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.

 

[JPPT1974]

Haggai 1:12:Then Zerubabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshual the son of Josedech the high priest with all the remnatn 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 befroe the Lord.

 

[bgoddenia]

Haggai 1:13 Then Haggai, the LORD's messenger, gave this message of the LORD to the people: "I am with you," declares the LORD.

 

[JPPT1974]

Haggai 1:14:And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbel the son of Shealtiel governor of Judah and the spirit of Joshaul the son of Josedech the high priest and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and di work in the house of the Lord of hosts, their God.

 

[barb754]

Haggai 1:15 (KJV) In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

 

[bgoddenia]

Haggai 2:1 On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:

 

[doc329]

Haggai 2:2 (KJV) Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,

 

[Glenda]

Hag 2:3 Who is left among you who saw this house in her former glory? And how do you see it now? When compared to it, is it not as nothing in your eyes?

 

[doc329]

Haggai 2:4 (KJV) Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work: for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts: