Orthodox Jewish Bible

Chaggai 1:10-15 Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)

10. Therefore the Shomayim over you is stayed from dew, and Ha'Aretz is stayed from her fruit.

11. And I called for a drought upon ha'aretz, and upon the harim (mountains), and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which ha'adamah bringeth forth, and upon ha'adam, and upon livestock, and upon all the labor of the hands.

12. Then Zerubavel ben Sh'altiel, and Yehoshua ben Yehotzadak, the Kohen HaGadol, with kol she'erit HaAm, obeyed the voice of Hashem Eloheichem, and the words of Chaggi HaNavi, as Hashem Eloheichem had sent him, and the people did fear before Hashem.

13. Then spoke Chaggai malach Hashem with the message of Hashem unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith Hashem.

14. And Hashem stirred up the ruach of Zerubavel ben Sh'altiel, Governor of Yehudah, and the ruach of Yehoshua ben Yehotzadak, the Kohen HaGadol, and the ruach of kol she'erit HaAm; and they came and did work in the Beis [HaMikdash] of Hashem Tzva'os, Eloheichem,

15. In the four and twentieth yom of the sixth month, in the second year of Daryavesh HaMelech [520 B.C.E.].