Haggai 1:14–2:9

¹⁴And Jehovah doth stir up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they come in, and do work in the house of Jehovah of Hosts their God, ¹⁵in the twenty and fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

Chapter 2

¹In the seventh month, in the twenty and first of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying: ²‘Speak, I pray thee, unto Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and unto Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest, and unto the remnant of the people, saying: ³Who among you hath been left that saw this house in its former honour? And what are ye seeing it now? Is it not, compared with it, as nothing in your eyes? ⁴And now, be strong, O Zerubbabel, An affirmation of Jehovah, And be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest, And be strong, all ye people of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And do ye—(for I am with you, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts)— ⁵The thing that I covenanted with you, In your coming forth from Egypt, And My Spirit is remaining in your midst, fear not. ⁶For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Yet once more—it is a little, And I am shaking the heavens and the earth, And the sea, and the dry land, ⁷And I have shaken all the nations, And they have come to the desire of all the nations, And I have filled this house with honour, Said Jehovah of Hosts. ⁸Mine is the silver, and Mine the gold, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts. ⁹Greater is the honour of this latter house, Than of the former, said Jehovah of Hosts, And in this place do I give peace, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.’