Haggai 1:1-2

American Standard Version

1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, ² Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, ^[a]It is not the time for us to come, the time for Jehovah’s house to be built.