IN the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the Word of Yahuah by the prophet Chaggai, saying,
Speak now to Zerubbavel the son of She'altiy'el, governor of Yahudah, and to El-Yahusha the son of Yahutsadaq, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as nothing?
Yet now be strong, O Zerubbavel, says Yahuah; and be strong, O Yahusha, son of Yahutsadaq, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, says Yahuah, and work: for I am with you, says Yahuah Tseva'oth:
According to the Word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Mitsrayim, so my Ruach remains among you: fear ye not.
For thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahuah Tseva'oth.
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says Yahuah Tseva'oth.
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, says Yahuah Tseva'oth: and in this place will I give peace, says Yahuah Tseva'oth.
In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Dareyavesh, came the Word of Yahuah by Chaggai the prophet, saying,
Thus says Yahuah Tseva'oth; Ask now the priests concerning the Torah, saying,
If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
Then said Chaggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
Then answered Chaggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, says Yahuah; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the Temple of Yahuah:
Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, says Yahuah.
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of Yahuah's Temple was laid, consider it.
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, has not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
And again the Word of Yahuah came unto Chaggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
Speak to Zerubbavel, governor of Yahudah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, everyone by the sword of his brother.
In that day, says Yahuah Tseva'oth, will I take you, O Zerubbavel, my servant, the son of She'altiy'el, says Yahuah, and will make you as a signet: for I have chosen you, says Yahuah Tseva'oth.