1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, hath a word of JEHOVAH been by the hand of Haggai the prophet, unto Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and unto Joshua son of Josedech, thehigh priest, saying:

2 Thus spake JEHOVAH of Hosts, saying: This people! — they have said, ‘The time hath not come, The time the house of JEHOVAH [is] to be built.’