^{2 Ref} Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: This people! -- they have said, `The time hath not come, The time the house of Jehovah `is' to be built.'

^{3 Ref} And there is a word of Jehovah by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:

^{4 Ref} Is it time for you -- you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?