1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of Yahuah (LORD) by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Yahudah (Judah), and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
2Thus speaks Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts), saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built.
3Then came the word of Yahuah (LORD) by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4Is it time for you, O you, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
5Now therefore thus says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts); Consider your ways.
6You 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 that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7Thus says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts); Consider your ways.
8Go 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 (LORD).
9You looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? says Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts). Because of my house that is waste, and you run every man unto his own house.
10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
11And 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 labour of the hands.
12Then 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 Yahuah (LORD) their Elohim (God), and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahuah (LORD) their Elohim (God) had sent him, and the people did fear before Yahuah (LORD).
13Then spake Haggai the LORD’S messenger in the LORD’S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, says Yahuah (LORD).
14And Yahuah (LORD) stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Yahudah (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 Yahuah Tseva'ot (LORD of hosts), their Elohim (God),
15In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.