Kaggayi 1
1 Mu mwaka ogwokubiri ogw’okufuga kwa kabaka Daliyo, ku lunaku olusooka mu mwezi ogw’omukaaga, ekigambo kya Mukama ne kijjira nnabbi Kaggayi okutegeeza Zerubbaberi mutabani wa Seyalutyeri, ow’essaza lya Yuda, ne Yoswa mutabani wa Yekozadaaki kabona asinga obukulu nti:
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high-priest, saying,
2 Bw’ati bw’ayogera Mukama ow’eggye nti, “Abantu bano boogera nti, ‘Ekiseera tekinnatuuka okuddaabiriza ennyumba ya Mukama.’”
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: This people saith, The time is not yet come, the time that the house of Jehovah should be built.
3 Awo ekigambo kya Mukama ne kijjira nnabbi Kaggayi nga kyogera nti;
But the word of Jehovah hath come by Haggai the prophet, saying: —
4 “Kino kye kiseera mmwe okubeera mu nnyumba zammwe enkole obulungi, naye ennyumba eyo n’erekebwa nga kifulukwa?”
Is it, then, a time for yourselves To dwell in ceiled houses, While this house lieth waste?
5 Kale nno bw’ati bw’ayogera Mukama ow’Eggye nti, “Mweddeko ku neeyisa yammwe.
Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider how it goeth with you!
6 Musimbye bingi naye ne mukungula bitono; mulya naye temukkuta; munywa naye ennyonta tebaggwaako; mwambala naye temubuguma; mukolera empeera naye ze mukoze muziteeka mu nsawo ejjudde ebituli.”
Ye sow much, and bring in little; Ye eat, but are not full; Ye drink, but are not satisfied; Ye clothe yourselves, but are not warmed; And he that earneth wages earneth them for a purse with holes.
7 Bw’ati bw’ayogera Mukama ow’Eggye nti, “Mweddeko ku neeyisa yammwe.
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider how it goeth with you!
8 Mwambuke mu nsozi muleeteyo embaawo muzimbe ennyumba ngisanyukire, ngulumizibwe,” bw’ayogera Mukama.
Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house, That I may have pleasure therein, And be glorified, saith Jehovah.
9 “Mwasuubira bingi, naye mulaba bwe muvuddemu ebitono. Bye mwaleeta eka, nabifuumuula. Mumanyi ensonga? bw’ayogera Mukama ow’Eggye. Kubanga buli muntu afa ku nnyumba ye naye ennyumba yange mugigayaaliridde.
Ye look for much, and lo, it cometh to little; And when ye bring it home, I blow it away; And why? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house which lieth waste, While ye run every one to his own house.
10 Eggulu kyerivudde liziyizibwa okuleeta omusulo, n’ettaka n’okuleeta ne litaleeta bibala byalyo.
Therefore the heaven over you withholdeth the dew, And the earth refuseth her fruit.
11 Nasindika ekyeya ku nnimiro ne ku nsozi, ku mmere ey’empeke ne ku wayini omuggya, ku mafuta ne ku buli bibala eby’ettaka, ku bantu ne ku nsolo, ne ku mirimu gyonna egy’engalo.”
And I have called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains; And upon the corn, and the new wine, and the oil; Upon that which the ground bringeth forth, And upon men, and upon cattle, And upon all the labor of the hands.
12 Awo Zerubbaberi mutabani wa Seyalutyeri, ne Yoswa mutabani wa Yekozadaaki, ye yali kabona asinga obukulu, n’abantu bonna abaasigalawo ne bagondera eddoboozi lya Mukama Katonda waabwe, n’obubaka bwa nnabbi Kaggayi, kubanga Mukama Katonda waabwe ye yamutuma. Abantu ne batya Mukama.
Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high-priest, and all the remnant of people, hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him; and the people feared before Jehovah.
13 Awo Kaggayi omubaka wa Mukama n’ategeeza abantu obubaka obwava eri Mukama nti, “Ndi wamu nammwe,” bw’ayogera Mukama.
Then spake Haggai, the messenger of Jehovah, by a message from Jehovah to the people, saying, I am with you, saith Jehovah.
14 Awo Mukama n’akubiriza omutima gwa Zerubbaberi mutabani wa Seyalutyeri, ow’essaza lya Yuda, n’omutima gwa Yoswa mutabani wa Yekozadaaki, kabona asinga obukulu, n’emitima egy’abantu bonna abaasigalawo, ne bajja ne batandika omulimu ku nnyumba ya Mukama ow’Eggye, Katonda waabwe,
And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high-priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of people, so that they came and executed work upon the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,
15 ku lunaku olw’amakumi abiri mu ennya mu mwezi ogw’omukaaga mu mwaka ogwokubiri ogw’okufuga kwa kabaka Daliyo.
on the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
