哈該書 1
1 大流士王第二年六月初一日，耶和華的話藉先知哈該向猶大省長撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞說：
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of Yahweh came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and to the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, saying,
2 萬軍之耶和華如此說：「這百姓說，建造耶和華殿的時候尚未來到。」
“Yahweh of hosts says this: These people say, 'It is not time for us to come or to build Yahweh's house.'”
3 那時耶和華的話臨到先知哈該說：
Then the word of Yahweh came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 「這殿仍然荒涼，你們自己還住天花板的房屋嗎？
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your finished houses, while this house lies ruined?
5 現在萬軍之耶和華如此說：你們要省察自己的行為。
So now Yahweh of hosts says this: Consider your ways!
6 你們撒的種多，收的卻少；你們吃，卻不得飽；喝，卻不得足；穿衣服，卻不得暖；得工錢的，將工錢裝在破漏的囊中。」
You have sown much seed, but bring in little harvest; you eat but do not have enough; you drink but cannot get drunk. You wear clothes but cannot warm yourselves, and the wage earner earns money only to put it into a bag full of holes!
7 萬軍之耶和華如此說：「你們要省察自己的行為。
Yahweh of hosts says this: “Consider your ways!
8 你們要上山取木料，建造這殿，我就因此喜樂，且得榮耀。這是耶和華說的。
Go up to the mountain, bring timber, and build my house; then I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified!—says Yahweh.”
9 你們盼望多得，所得的卻少；你們收到家中，我就吹去。這是為甚麼呢？因為我的殿荒涼，你們各人卻顧自己的房屋。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。
“You looked for much, but behold! you have brought little home, for I blew it away! Why?” declares Yahweh of hosts. “Because my house lies in ruins, while every one of you is working on his own house.
10 所以為你們的緣故，天就不降甘露，地也不出土產。
Because of this the heavens withhold the dew from you, and the earth withholds its produce.
11 我命乾旱臨到地土、山岡、五穀、新酒，和油，並地上的出產、人民、牲畜，以及人手一切勞碌得來的。」
I have summoned a drought upon the land and upon the mountains, upon the grain and upon the new wine, upon the oil and upon the harvest of the earth, upon men and upon beasts, and upon all the labor of your hands!”
12 那時，撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞，並剩下的百姓，都聽從耶和華－他們上帝的話和先知哈該奉耶和華－他們上帝差來所說的話；百姓也在耶和華面前存敬畏的心。
Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, along with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Yahweh their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, because Yahweh their God had sent him and the people feared the face of Yahweh.
13 耶和華的使者哈該奉耶和華差遣對百姓說：「耶和華說：我與你們同在。」
Then Haggai, the messenger of Yahweh, spoke Yahweh's message to the people and said, “I am with you!—this is Yahweh's declaration!”
14 耶和華激動猶大省長撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞，並剩下之百姓的心，他們就來為萬軍之耶和華－他們上帝的殿做工。
So Yahweh stirred up the spirit of the governor of Judah, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and the spirit of the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, so that they went and worked on the house of Yahweh of hosts, their God
15 這是在大流士王第二年六月二十四日。
in the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
