1:1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest,
1:1 In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest:

1:2 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: This people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD."
1:2 Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the LORD's house.

1:3 Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet,
1:3 Then the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai, saying:

1:4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
1:4 Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?

1:5 Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
1:5 Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you have fared.

1:6 You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.
1:6 You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and you that earn wages earn wages to put them into a bag with holes.

1:7 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
1:7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you have fared.

1:8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may appear in my glory, says the LORD.
1:8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored, says the LORD.

1:9 You have looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while you busy yourselves each with his own house.
1:9 You have looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses.

1:10 Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.
1:10 Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.

1:11 And I have called for a drought upon the land and the hills, upon the grain, the new wine, the oil, upon what the ground brings forth, upon men and cattle, and upon all their labors."
1:11 And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the soil produces, on human beings and animals, and on all their labors.

1:12 Then Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, and Joshua the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him; and the people feared before the LORD.
1:12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of the prophet Haggai, as the LORD their God had sent him; and the people feared the LORD.

1:13 Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD's message, "I am with you, says the LORD."
1:13 Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD's message, saying, I am with you, says the LORD.

1:14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerub'babel the son of She-al'ti-el, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehoz'adak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
1:14 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua 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 the LORD of hosts, their God,

1:15 on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month. In the second year of Darius the king,
1:15 on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month.