1In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD 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 the LORD of Hosts, saying: This people has said, 'It is not the time to come, the time for the house of the LORD to be built.'3Then the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:4Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your covered houses, while this house lies desolate?5And now, thus says the LORD of Hosts: Consider your ways.6You have sown much and brought in little; you eat and there is nothing to satiety; you drink and there is nothing to drunkenness; you clothe and there is nothing for warmth; and the one who hires hires into a pierced bundle.7Thus says the LORD of Hosts: Consider your ways.8Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house, that I may accept it and be honored, says the LORD.9You look for much, and behold, it is little; and you bring it home, and I blow on it. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because of my house, which lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.10Therefore the heavens have restrained dew upon you, and the land has restrained its crops.11And I called drought upon the land and upon the mountains and upon the grain and upon the new wine and upon the oil and upon what the ground brings forth and upon the man and upon the animal and upon all the work of their hands.12Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak the high priest, and all the remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him; and the people feared the LORD.13Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke in the message of the LORD to the people, saying, "I am with you, declares the LORD."14And the LORD 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 worked on the house of the LORD of Hosts their God.15This was on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the second year of King Darius.