Haggai 1:1-4 ▼

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

2 “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘This people says, “The time has not come, even the time for the house of Yahweh to be rebuilt.”’”

3 Then the word of Yahweh came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,

4 “Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house lies waste?”