In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of Jehovah 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,

So says Jehovah of Hosts, saying: This people says, The time has not come, the time that Jehovah's house should be built.

Then came the Word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,

And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the 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 Jehovah of Hosts, their God,

In the seventh month, in the twenty-first of the month, the Word of Jehovah came by the prophet Haggai, saying,

with the Word who cut a covenant with you when you came out of Egypt, and My Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.

And I will shake all the nations; and the desire of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, says Jehovah of Hosts.

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

from then onward, one came to a heap of twenty measures, and there were but ten; one came to the wine vat to draw off fifty from the winepress, and there were but twenty.

And a second time the Word of Jehovah came to Haggai in the twenty-fourth of the month, saying,

And I will overthrow the throne of the kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations. And I will overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall come down, each one by the sword of his brother.