¹In the second year of Daryavesh (Darius) [lord] the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by Hagai [festive] the prophet unto Z’rubavel [sown in Babylon] the son of Sh’alti’el [I have asked of God] , governor of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] , and to Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Y’hotzadak [Yehovah is righteous] , the High Priest, saying,

²Thus speaks the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] , saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord -Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house (Temple) should be built.

³Then came the word of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by Hagai [festive] the prophet, saying,

⁴[Is it] time for you, O you2f , to dwell in your ceilinged houses, and this house [lie] waste?

⁵Now therefore thus says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] ; Consider your ways.

⁶You2f have sown much, and bring in little; you2f eat, but you2f have not enough; you2f drink, but you2f are not filled with drink; you2f clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earns wages earns wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.

⁷Thus says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] ; Consider your ways.

⁸Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

⁹You2f looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when you2f brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] . Because of my house that [is] waste, and you2f run every man unto his own house.

¹⁰Therefore the heaven over you is detained (held) from dew, and the earth is detained (held) [from] her fruit.

¹¹And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the New Wine, and upon the oil, and upon [that] which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

¹²Then Z’rubavel [sown in Babylon] the son of Sh’alti’el [I have asked of God] , and Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Y’hotzadak [Yehovah is righteous] , the High Priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] , and the words of Hagai [festive] the prophet, as the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had sent him, and the people did fear before the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

¹³Then spoke Hagai [festive] the Lord -Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] messenger in the Lord -Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] message unto the people, saying, I [am] with you, says the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) .

¹⁴And the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) stirred up the spirit of Z’rubavel [sown in Babylon] the son of Sh’alti’el [I have asked of God] , governor of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] , and the spirit of Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] the son of Y’hotzadak [Yehovah is righteous] , the High Priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house of the Lord -Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies] , their God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] ,

¹⁵In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Daryavesh (Darius) [lord] the king.