17 I smote you with the east wind and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands, yet ye did not turn to me, said the Lord.
18 Consider now in your heart from this day forth, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, put your heart into it.
19 Is not the seed yet in the barn? Not even the vine, nor the fig tree, nor the pomegranate, nor the olive tree, has blossomed yet, but from this day will I bless you.
20 And the word of the Lord came the second time unto Haggai in the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I cause the heavens and the earth to shake,
22 and I will overthrow the throne of the kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdom of the Gentiles, and I will overthrow the chariot and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, each one by the sword of his brother.
23 In that day, said the Lord of the hosts, I will take thee, O Zerubbabel, my slave, the son of Shealtiel, said the Lord, and will make thee as a signet ring; for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord of the hosts.