Bible Verses

You have sown much but harvested little; you eat and drink, but are not satisfied; you clothe yourselves, but still feel cold; and the laborer puts the money he earned in a tattered purse.

Now, thus says the Lord of hosts: Think about your ways:

Is this the time for you to live in your well-built houses while this house is a heap of ruins?

Well, now, hear what I have to say through the prophet Haggai:

First Oracle “So says the Lord of hosts: This people claim that the time to rebuild the house of the Lord has not yet come.

In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, a word of the Lord was directed to the prophet Haggai, for the benefit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest.