Dual PanelZerubbabel restorer of the temple
1IN the second year of King Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD, spoken through the prophet Haggai, came to the governor of Judah Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and to the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak.
2“These are the words of the LORD of Hosts: This nation says that the time has not yet come for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt.”
3Then this word came through Haggai the prophet:
4“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your well-roofed houses, while this house lies in ruins?
5Now these are the words of the LORD of Hosts: Consider your way of life;
6you have sown much but reaped little, you eat but never enough to satisfy, you drink but never enough to cheer you, you are clothed but never warm, and he who earns wages puts them into a purse with a hole in it.
7“These are the words of the LORD of Hosts: Consider your way of life.
8Go up into the hill-country, fetch timber, and build a house acceptable to me, where I can reveal my glory, says the LORD.
9You look for much and get little and when you bring home the harvest I blast it away. And why? says the LORD of Hosts. Because my house lies in ruins, while each of you has a house he can hurry to.
10It is your fault that the heavens withhold their moisture and the earth its produce.
11So I have proclaimed a drought against land and mountain, against grain, new wine, and oil, and everything that the ground yields, against human beings and cattle and all the products of your labour.”
12Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people listened to the words of the LORD their God and to what the prophet Haggai said when the LORD their God sent him, and they were filled with fear because of the LORD.
13So Haggai the LORD's messenger, as the LORD had commissioned him, said to the people: “I am with you, says the LORD.”
14Then the LORD stirred up the spirit of the governor of Judah Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and of the rest of the people, so that they went and set to work on the house of the LORD of Hosts their God
15on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month. In the second year of King Darius,