In the ^asecond year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet ^bHaggai to ^cZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^dgovernor of Judah, and to ^eJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2 “This is what the LORD of armies ¹says: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt.”’” 3 Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4 “Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house remains ^adesolate?” 5 Now then, the LORD of armies says this: “¹Consider your ways! 6 You have ^asown much, only to ¹harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but there is not enough for ²anyone to get warm; and the one who earns, earns wages to put into a money bag full of holes.”

7 The LORD of armies says this: “¹Consider your ways! 8 Go up to the ¹mountains, bring wood, and ^arebuild the ²temple, that I may be ^bpleased with it and be ^chonored,” says the LORD. 9 “^aYou ¹start an ambitious project, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I ^bblow it away. Why?” declares the LORD of armies. “It is because of My house which ^cremains desolate, while each of you runs to his own house. 10 Therefore, because of you the ^asky has withheld ¹its dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 11 And I called for a ^adrought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on ^bmankind, on cattle, and on ^call the products of the labor of ¹your hands.”

12 Then ^aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and ^bJoshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, ^cobeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, just as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people ^1dshowed reverence for the LORD. 13 Then Haggai, the ^amessenger of the LORD, spoke ¹by the commission of the LORD to the people, saying, “‘^bI am with you,’ declares the LORD.” 14 So the LORD stirred up the spirit of ^aZerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ^bgovernor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the ^cremnant of the people; and they came and ^dworked on the house of the LORD of armies, their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of Darius the king.