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-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD-Yehovah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] house (Temple) should be built. 3Then came the word of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by Hagai [festive] the prophet, saying, 4[Is it] time for you, O you^2f, to dwell in your ceilinged houses, and this house [lie] waste? 5Now therefore thus says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]; Consider your ways. 6You^2f have sown much, and bring in little; you^2f eat, but you^2f have not enough; you^2f drink, but you^2f are not filled with drink; you^2f 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-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). 9You^2f looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when you^2f brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies]. Because of my house that [is] waste, and you^2f 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-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and the words of Hagai [festive] the prophet, as the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) their God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). 13Then spoke Hagai [festive] the LORD-Yehovah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] messenger in the LORD-Yehovah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] message unto the people, saying, I [am] with you, says the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). 14And the LORD-Yehovah (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-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) Tz’va’ot [of the Heavenly Armies], their God-Elohim (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.