Hagai 1
1 Ɔbosome a ɛtɔ so nsia no da a ɛdi ɛkan wɔ Ɔhene Dario adedie afe a ɛtɔ so mmienu so no, Awurade nam Odiyifoɔ Hagai so, de asɛm maa Sealtiel babarima ne Yuda amrado Serubabel ne Ɔsɔfopanin Yehosadak babarima Yosua.
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 Asɛm a Asafo Awurade ka nie: “Nnipa no reka sɛ, ‘Ɛberɛ no nnya nnuruiɛ sɛ wɔsi Awurade fie no.’”
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 Afei, Awurade de saa asɛm yi faa Odiyifoɔ Hagai so:
But the word of Jehovah hath come by Haggai the prophet, saying: —
4 “Saa ɛberɛ yi a me fie yi abubuo yi, ɛna mo deɛ motete mo afie a wɔaduradura mu yi anaa?”
Is it, then, a time for yourselves To dwell in ceiled houses, While this house lieth waste?
5 Asɛm a, Asafo Awurade ka nie: “Monnwene mo akwan ho yie.
Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider how it goeth with you!
6 Moduaa bebree, nanso motwaa kakraa bi. Modidi, nanso mommee. Monom, nanso osukɔm de mo ara. Mohyɛ ntadeɛ, nanso ɛnka mo hye. Monya akatua, na mode gu sikabɔtɔ a wɔatuetue mu ntokuro mu.”
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 Asɛm a Otumfoɔ Awurade ka nie: “Monnwene mo akwan ho yie.
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider how it goeth with you!
8 Afei, momforo nkɔ nkokoɔ no atifi, na momfa nnua mmra mmɛsi me fie no. Na mʼani bɛgye ho, na wɔahyɛ me animuonyam.” Saa na Awurade ka.
Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house, That I may have pleasure therein, And be glorified, saith Jehovah.
9 “Mo ani daa bebree so, nanso ɛyɛɛ kakraa bi. Na mode baa fie no, mehu guiɛ. Ɛdeɛn ntira?” Ɛfiri sɛ, “me fie abubu.” Saa na Asafo Awurade ka, “ɛberɛ a mo ani abere resisi mo afie.
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 Mo enti na ɔsoro akyere ɛbɔ agyina, na asase nso akyere mo mfudeɛ.
Therefore the heaven over you withholdeth the dew, And the earth refuseth her fruit.
11 Mahyɛ ɔpɛ sɛ ɛnsi mo mfuo ne nkokoɔ so; ɔpɛ a ɛbɛhye mo atokoɔ ne mo bobe ne mo ngo dua ne mo mfudeɛ, ɛbɛyɛ ɔpɛ a ɛbɛsi mo ne mo anantwie mu, na asɛe dwuma biara a mode mo nsa adi.”
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 Ɛnna Sealtiel babarima Serubabel, Ɔsɔfopanin Yehosadak babarima Yosua ne Onyankopɔn nkurɔfoɔ nkaeɛ no tiee asɛm a ɛfiri Awurade, wɔn Onyankopɔn, ne Odiyifoɔ Hagai a Awurade, wɔn Onyankopɔn, asoma no no. Na nnipa no de osuro maa Awurade.
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 Na Hagai, Awurade somafoɔ no, de saa asɛm yi a ɛfiri Awurade nkyɛn maa nkurɔfoɔ no: “Meka mo ho.” Saa na Awurade seɛ.
Then spake Haggai, the messenger of Jehovah, by a message from Jehovah to the people, saying, I am with you, saith Jehovah.
14 Ɛno enti, Awurade kanyanee Sealtiel babarima Serubabel a ɔyɛ Yuda amrado, Ɔsɔfopanin Yehosadak babarima Yosua ne Onyankopɔn nkurɔfoɔ nkaeɛ no nyinaa. Wɔbɛhyɛɛ wɔn adwuma a ɛwɔ Asafo Awurade, wɔn Onyankopɔn, fie no ase,
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 wɔ Ɔhene Dario adedie afe a ɛtɔ so mmienu no, ɔbosome a ɛtɔ so nsia no da a ɛtɔ so aduonu ɛnan no.
on the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
