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¹ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh 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,² Thus speaks Yahweh of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time [for us] to come, the time for Yahweh's house to be built.³ Then the word of Yahweh came by Haggai the prophet, saying,⁴ Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lies waste?⁵ Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.⁶ You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you don't have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earns wages, earns wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.⁷ Thus says Yahweh of 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, says Yahweh.⁹ You looked for much, and, look, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew on it. Why? says Yahweh of hosts. Because of my house that lies waste, while you run every man to his own house.¹⁰ Therefore above you the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.¹¹ And I called for a drought on 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 cattle, and on all the labor 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 Yahweh their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him; and the people feared before Yahweh.¹³ Then Haggai, Yahweh's messenger, spoke Yahweh's message to the people, saying, I am with you, says Yahweh.¹⁴ And Yahweh 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 Yahweh of hosts, their God,¹⁵ in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth [month], in the second year of Darius the king.