And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.

And the word of Jehovah came the second time unto Haggai on the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:

Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: This people! -- they have said, 'The time hath not come, The time the house of Jehovah is to be built.'