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

Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?

And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but are not satisfied; ye drink, but are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes.

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.

in the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? and how do ye see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes?

On the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,

If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

before those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the vat to draw out fifty press-measures, there were but twenty.

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah.