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1 In the second year of king Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the Eternal spoke by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor or Judah, and to the high-priest Joshua the son of Jehozadak. 2 “A message from the Lord of hosts! This people declare that the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Eternal! 4 And is it a time for you to be living in panelled houses of your own, when this House is lying in ruins? 5 Come (says the Lord of hosts), consider how you have fared. 6 You have sown much and harvested little, you eat and yet you never have enough, you drink but you never can drink your fill, you clothe yourselves but you cannot keep warm, and he who earns a wage puts it into a bag with holes. 7 Consider how you have been faring, says the Lord of hosts. 8 Now then, go up to the hill-country and fetch timber to rebuild the House, that I may take pleasure in it and see myself honoured, says the Eternal. 9 You expected a rich harvest, and it came to little; even what you brought home I spoiled. And why? Because (the Lord of hosts declares) my House still lies in ruins while each of you takes pleasure in his own house. 10 Hence the sky withholds its dew and the earth withholds its produce; 11 I have called for drought upon the land and hills, upon the grain and wine and oil, upon all that the ground yields, upon man and beast and all their labours.” 12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and the high-priest Joshua the son of Jehozadak and all the rest of the people listened to the voice of the Eternal their God and to the words of the prophet Haggai, as the Eternal had sent him to them; the people did reverence to the Eternal 13 [[and Haggai the messenger of the Eternal, as commissioned by the Eternal, assured the people that the Eternal was with them]], 14 and the Eternal roused the spirit of the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and the spirit of the high-priest Joshua the son of Jehozadak, and the spirit of all the rest of the people, so that they went to work upon the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, 15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month.
In the second year of king Darius,