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.'

Is it time for you -- you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?

From that time one hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty.

And there is a word of Jehovah a second time unto Haggai, on the twenty and fourth of the month, saying: