Haggai
1 from Scroll 4Q77 Minor Prophetsb
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first
day of the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the prophet, to
Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of
Judah, and to Joshua, the son of
Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2 “This is
what Yahweh of Armies says: These
people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be
built.’”
Haggai 1 from Scroll Wadi Muraba’at Minor Prophets
1 In the
second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of
the month, Yahweh’s word came by Haggai, the
prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor
of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the
high priest, saying, 2 “This is what
Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time
hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’ ”
3 Then Yahweh’s
word came by Haggai, the prophet, saying, 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your
paneled houses, while this house lies waste? 5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies
says: Consider your ways. 6 You
have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you
don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe
yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with
holes in it.”
7 This is
what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways. 8 Go
up to the mountain, bring wood,
and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,”
says Yahweh. 9 “You looked for much, and,
behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because
of my house that lies waste, while each of
you is busy with his own house. 10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and
the earth withholds its fruit. 11 I called for a drought
on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on
that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of
the hands.”
12 Then
Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son
of Jehozadak, the high priest, with
all the remnant of the people, obeyed Yahweh, their
God’s voice, and the
words of Haggai,
the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared
Yahweh.
13 Then
Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s
message to the people, saying, “I am
with you,” says Yahweh.
14 Yahweh stirred
up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the
son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and
the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the
house of Yahweh of Armies, their God, 15 in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius
the king.