Haggai 1

1 In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating

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：

2 that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”

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。」

3 Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying:

3 那時耶和華的話臨到先知哈該說：

4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

4 「這殿仍然荒涼，你們自己還住天花板的房屋嗎？

5 Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

5 現在萬軍之耶和華如此說：你們要省察自己的行為。

6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

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。」

7 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

7 萬軍之耶和華如此說：「你們要省察自己的行為。

8 Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

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。

9 You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

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。

10 Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

10 所以為你們的緣故，天就不降甘露，地也不出土產。

11 I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”

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。」

12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD.

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。

13 Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD.

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。」

14 So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,

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。

15 on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.

15 這是在大流士王第二年六月二十四日。