Haggai 1

1In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying:

2Thus says Yahweh of hosts: These people say, “The time has not come, the time for the house of Yahweh to be rebuilt.”

3Then the word of Yahweh came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,

4Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins?

5Now therefore, thus says Yahweh of hosts: Set your heart on your ways.

6You have sown much, but brought in little. You eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to be filled; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and the one who earns wages earns them for a bag with holes.

7Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Consider your ways.

8Go up into the hills, bring wood, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says Yahweh.

9You looked for much, but behold, it was little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares Yahweh of Armies. Because of my house, which lies in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house.

10Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.

11And I called for a drought on the land and on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the fresh oil, on what the ground produces, on man and on beast, and on all the labor of the hands.

12Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people, listened to the voice of Yahweh their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him; and the people feared before Yahweh.

13Then Haggai, the messenger of Yahweh, spoke to the people with Yahweh’s message, saying, “I am with you,” declares Yahweh.

14And Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God.

15on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.