In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of the LORD came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

Now therefore this is what the LORD of hosts says: Consider your ways.

This is what the LORD of hosts says: "Consider your ways.

Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

in the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn't it in your eyes as nothing?

In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

'If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?'" The priests answered, "No."

Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you did not turn to me,' says the LORD.