en_cepher - Hag 1 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ IN the second year of Dareyavesh the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the Word of Yahuah by Chaggai the prophet unto Zerubbavel the son of She'altiy'el, governor of Yahudah, and to El-Yahusha the son of Yahutsadaq, the high priest, saying,

² Thus speaks Yahuah Tseva'oth, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that Yahuah's house should be built.

³ Then came the Word of Yahuah by Chaggai the prophet, saying,

⁴ Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

⁵ Now therefore thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth; Consider your ways.

⁶ 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 earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.

⁷ Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth; Consider your ways.

⁸ Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says Yahuah.

⁹ Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? says Yahuah Tseva'oth. Because of my house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

¹⁰ Therefore the heavens over you are stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

¹¹ And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.

¹² Then Zerubbavel the son of She'altiy'el, and Yahusha the son of Yahutsadaq, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Yahuah Elohayhem, and the words of Chaggai the prophet, as Yahuah Elohayhem had sent him, and the people did fear before Yahuah.

¹³ Then spoke Chaggai Yahuah's messenger in Yahuah's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, says Yahuah.

¹⁴ And Yahuah stirred up the ruach of Zerubbavel the son of She'altiy'el, governor of Yahudah, and the ruach of Yahusha the son of Yahutsadaq, the high priest, and the ruach of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of Yahuah Tseva'oth, their Elohiym,

¹⁵ In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Dareyavesh the king.