1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of Jehovah 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, 2Thus says Jehovah of Hosts, saying, This people says, The time has not come, the time for the house of Jehovah to be built. 3Then the Word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, and this house to lie waste? 5And now, thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways. 6You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but are not filled with drink; you put on clothes, but no one is warm. And, one hiring himself out earns wages for a bag of holes. 7Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways. 8Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build this house. And I will be pleased with it, and I will be glorified, says Jehovah. 9You looked for much, and, lo, it came to little. And when you brought it home, then I blew on it. Why? says Jehovah of Hosts. Because of My house that is in ruins, and you, each man, runs to his own house. 10On account of this, the heavens above you hold back the dew, and the earth holds back her fruit. 11And I called for a drought in the land, and on the mountains, and on the grain, and on the new wine, and on the oil, and on that which the ground brings forth, and on man, and on livestock, and on all the labor of your hands. 12Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and 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 feared before Jehovah. 13And Haggai, the messenger of Jehovah, spoke the message of Jehovah to the people, saying, I am with you, says Jehovah. 14And Jehovah 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 Jehovah of Hosts, their God, 15in the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.