1 In the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua "son of Jozadak, "the high priest:2 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "These people say, 'The time has not yet come to rebuild the LORD's house.'"3 Then the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?"5 Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways.6 You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it."7 This is what the LORD Almighty says: "Give careful thought to your ways.8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored," says the LORD.9 "You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?" declares the LORD Almighty. "Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands."12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.13 Then Haggai, the LORD's messenger, gave this message of the LORD to the people: "I am with you," declares the LORD.14 So the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the whole remnant of the people. They came and began to work on the house of the LORD Almighty, their God,15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius,
1 In anno secundo Darii regis, in mense sexto, in die una mensis, factum est verbum Domini in manu Aggi prophet, ad Zorobabel, filium Salathiel, ducem Juda, et ad Jesum, filium Josedec, sacerdotem magnum, dicens : 2 Hc ait Dominus exercituum, dicens : Populus iste dicit : Nondum venit tempus domus Domini dificand. 3 Et factum est verbum Domini in manu Aggi prophet, dicens : 4 [Numquid tempus vobis est ut habitetis in domibus laqueatis,et domus ista deserta ?5 Et nunc hc dicit Dominus exercituum :Ponite corda vestra super vias vestras.6 Seminastis multum, et intulistis parum ;comedistis, et non estis satiati ;bibistis, et non estis inebriati ;operuistis vos, et non estis calefacti ;et qui mercedes congregavit, misit eas in sacculum pertusum.7 Hc dicit Dominus exercituum :Ponite corda vestra super vias vestras ;8 ascendite in montem, portate ligna, et dificate domum :et acceptabilis mihi erit, et glorificabor, dicit Dominus.9 Respexistis ad amplius, et ecce factum est minus ;et intulistis in domum, et exsufflavi illud :quam ob causam ? dicit Dominus exercituum :quia domus mea deserta est,et vos festinatis unusquisque in domum suam.10 Propter hoc super vos prohibiti sunt cli ne darent rorem,et terra prohibita est ne daret germen suum :11 et vocavi siccitatem super terram, et super montes,et super triticum, et super vinum, et super oleum,et qucumque profert humus,et super homines, et super jumenta,et super omnem laborem manuum.] 12 Et audivit Zorobabel, filius Salathiel, et Jesus, filius Josedec, sacerdos magnus, et omnes reliqui populi, vocem Domini Dei sui, et verba Aggi prophet, sicut misit eum Dominus Deus eorum ad eos, et timuit populus a facie Domini. 13 Et dixit Aggus, nuntius Domini de nuntiis Domini, populo dicens : Ego vobiscum sum, dicit Dominus. 14 Et suscitavit Dominus spiritum Zorobabel, filii Salathiel, ducis Juda, et spiritum Jesu, filii Josedec, sacerdotis magni, et spiritum reliquorum de omni populo : et ingressi sunt, et faciebant opus in domo Domini exercituum, Dei sui.