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¶ In the second yeere of Darius the king, in the sixt moneth, in the first day of the moneth came the worde of the LORD by Haggai the Prophet vnto Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, gouernour of Iudah, and to Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, saying;

1611 marginal noteHeb. by the hand of Haggai.

1611 marginal noteOr, captaine.

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

Yee haue sowen much and bring in litle: ye eate, but ye haue not inough: yee drinke, but yee are not filled with drinke: yee cloth you, but there is none warme: and hee that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

1611 marginal noteHeb. pierced through.

1611 marginal noteDeut.28.38. mic.6.14, 15.

Goe vp to the mountaine, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

Then spake Haggai the LORDs messenger in the LORDs message vnto the people, saying; I am with you, saith the LORD.

And the LORD stirred vp the spirit of Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel gouernour of Iudah, and the spirit of Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they came and did worke in the house of the LORD of hostes their God:

In the foure and twentieth day of the sixt moneth, in the second yeere of Darius the King.

¶ In the seuenth moneth, in the one and twentith day of the moneth, came the word of the LORD by the Prophet Haggai, saying;

1611 marginal noteHeb. by the hand of.

Who is left among you that sawe this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? Is it not in your eyes in comparison of it, as nothing?

The glory of this latter house shal be greater then of the former, saith the LORD of hostes: and in this place will I giue peace, saith the LORD of hostes.