In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, a word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying: Speak now to Zorobabel son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Judah, and to Iesous son of Iosedek, the great priest, saying:
You sowed much and brought in little; you ate, but not to fullness; you drank, but not to drunkenness; you clothed yourselves, but were not warmed by them; and the one who gathered wages gathered them into a bag full of holes.
You looked for much, and it turned out little; and what was brought into the house, I blew it away. Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty: Because my house is desolate, while each of you runs off to his own house.
And I will bring a sword upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon all that the earth brings forth, and upon humans and upon cattle, and upon all the labors of their hands.
And Zorobabel son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Judah, and Iesous son of Iosedek, the great priest, and all the remnant of the people listened to the voice of the Lord their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him to them; and the people were afraid before the Lord.
And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zorobabel son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Judah, and the spirit of Iesous son of Iosedek, the great priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and set to work on the house of the Lord Almighty, their God.