1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
2 Thus speaks Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that Jehovah 's house should be built.
3 Then came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 Is it time for you, Oh you, to dwell in your paneled houses, and this house lie waste?
5 Now therefore thus says Jehovah of hosts; think about your ways.
6 you have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe you, but there is none warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7 Thus says Jehovah of hosts; think about 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 Jehovah.
9 you looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? Says Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that is waste, and you run every man to his own house.
10 Therefore the heaven over you is 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 corn, 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 Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Jehovah their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him, and the people did reverence before Jehovah.
13 Then spoke Haggai Jehovah 's messenger in Jehovah 's message to the people, saying, I am with you, says Jehovah.
14 And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,
15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.