1In the year two of Darius the King, in the sixth month, in the first of the month, the word of LORD JEHOVAH was by Khaggi the Prophet to Zorobabel, son of Salathiel, the Ruler of Judea, and to Yeshua, son of Yozedeq the Great Priest, saying: 2Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: “This people say, the time has not arrived that the house of LORD JEHOVAH will be built.” 3And the word of LORD JEHOVAH was by Khaggi the Prophet, saying: 4“Is this the time for you that you dwell in your houses when they are sheltered, and this house is ruined? 5Therefore thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: ”Set your hearts on your ways 6For you sow much and you gather a little, and you eat and you are not full, and you drink and you are not drunk, and you are clothed and you are not warm, and he who is hired among you is hired for a money bag with holes”

7Thus says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts: “Set your hearts on your ways! 8Go up the mountain! Bring wood and build up this house and I shall be pleased in it, and I shall be glorified in it, says LORD JEHOVAH 9You look for much and it has come to a little, and you enter within the house and I blow on it, and why are these things, says LORD JEHOVAH? Because my house is ruined and you run each man to his own house! 10Because of you the heavens have been restrained from dew and the Earth withholds its fruit 11And I called for ruin against the land and against the mountains and against the grain and against the wine and against the oil and against everything that the Earth brings forth and against the children of men and against beast and against all the labor of your hands!”

12And Zorobabel, son of Salathiel, and Yeshua, son of Yozedeq the Great Priest, and all the rest of the people heard the voice of LORD JEHOVAH their God and the word of Khaggi the Prophet whom LORD JEHOVAH their God sent to them, and the people were in awe of the presence of LORD JEHOVAH 13And Khaggi the Messenger of LORD JEHOVAH said in the message of LORD JEHOVAH to the people: “I am with you, says LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts!” 14And LORD JEHOVAH awakened the spirit of Zorobabel, son of Salathiel, Ruler of Judea, and the spirit of Yeshua, son of Yozedeq, the Great Priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they went and they worked a work in the house of LORD JEHOVAH of Hosts their God 15In the twenty fourth day, in the sixth month, in year two of King Darius