1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of theLordby Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
2 Thus speaketh theLordof hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the timefor usto come, the time for theLord’S house to be built.
3 Then came the word of theLordby Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?
5 Now therefore thus saith theLordof hosts: Consider your ways,
6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wagesto put itinto a bag with holes.
7 Thus saith theLordof hosts: Consider 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, saith theLord.
9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith theLordof hosts. Because of mine house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.
10 Therefore for your sake the heaven is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayedfromher fruit.
11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour 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 the voice of theLordtheir God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as theLordtheir God had sent him; and the people did fear before theLord.
13 Then spake Haggai theLord’S messenger in theLord’S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith theLord.
14 And theLordstirred 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 did work in the house of theLordof hosts, their God,
15 in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixthmonth, in the second year of Darius the king.