1. In the second year of Daryavesh HaMelech, in the sixth month, in yom echad of the month, came the Devar Hashem by Chaggai HaNavi unto Zerubavel ben Sh'altiel, Governor of Yehudah, and to Yehoshua ben Yehotzadak [i.e., the namesake of Moshiach, see Zech 6:11-12], the Kohen HaGadol, saying,
2. Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: This people say, The time is not come, the time that Beis Hashem should be built.
3. Then came the Devar Hashem by Chaggai HaNavi, saying,
4. Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your paneled batim, and this Beis [HaMikdash] lie in ruins?
5. Now therefore thus saith Hashem Tzva'os; Consider your ways.
6. Ye have sown harbeh (much), and bring in me'at (little); ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is no warming; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put them into a purse of holes.