1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
Katika mwaka wa pili wa Dario mfalme, mwezi wa sita, siku ya kwanza ya mwezi, neno la Bwana lilimjia Zerubabeli, mwana wa Shealtieli, liwali wa Yuda, na Yoshua, mwana wa Yehosadaki, kuhani mkuu, kwa kinywa chake Hagai nabii, kusema,
2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.
Bwana wa majeshi asema hivi, ya kwamba, Watu hawa husema, Huu sio wakati utupasao kuja, huu sio wakati wa kujenga nyumba ya Bwana.
This House Lies Waste
3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Ndipo neno la Bwana lilikuja kwa kinywa cha nabii Hagai, kusema,
4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
Je! Huu ndio wakati wa ninyi kukaa katika nyumba zenye mapambo ya mbao, iwapo nyumba hii inakaa hali ya kuharibika?
5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Basi sasa, Bwana wa majeshi asema hivi, Zitafakarini njia zenu.
6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Mmepanda mbegu nyingi mkavuna kidogo; mnakula lakini hamshibi; mnakunywa lakini hamkujazwa na vinywaji; mnajivika nguo lakini hapana aonaye moto; na yeye apataye mshahara apata mshahara ili kuutia katika mfuko uliotoboka-toboka.
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Bwana wa majeshi asema hivi, Zitafakarini njia zenu.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
Pandeni milimani, mkalete miti, mkaijenge nyumba; nami nitaifurahia, nami nitatukuzwa, asema Bwana.
9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Mlitazamia vingi, kumbe vikatokea vichache; tena mlipovileta nyumbani nikavipeperusha. Ni kwa sababu gani? Asema Bwana wa majeshi. Ni kwa sababu ya nyumba yangu inayokaa hali ya kuharibika, wakati ambapo ninyi mnakimbilia kila mtu nyumbani kwake.
10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
Basi, kwa ajili yenu mbingu zimezuiliwa zisitoe umande, nayo nchi imezuiliwa isitoe matunda yake.
11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
Nami nikaita wakati wa joto uje juu ya nchi, na juu ya milima, na juu ya nafaka, na juu ya divai mpya, na juu ya mafuta, na juu ya kila kitu itoacho nchi, na juu ya wanadamu, na juu ya wanyama, na juu ya kazi zote za mikono.
12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
Ndipo Zerubabeli, mwana wa Shealtieli, na Yoshua, mwana wa Yehosadaki, kuhani mkuu, pamoja na hayo mabaki yote ya watu, wakaitii sauti ya Bwana, Mungu wao, na maneno ya Hagai nabii, kama Bwana, Mungu wao, alivyomtuma; nao watu wakaogopa mbele za Bwana.
13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
Ndipo Hagai mjumbe wa Bwana, katika ujumbe wa Bwana, akawaambia watu, akisema, Mimi nipo pamoja nanyi, asema Bwana.
14 And the LORD 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 the people; and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
Bwana akaiamsha roho ya Zerubabeli, mwana wa Shealtieli, liwali wa Yuda, na roho ya Yoshua, mwana wa Yehosadaki, kuhani mkuu, na roho zao mabaki ya watu; wakaenda, wakafanya kazi katika nyumba ya Bwana wa majeshi, Mungu wao;
15 in the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.
katika siku ya ishirini na nne ya mwezi, katika mwezi wa sita, katika mwaka wa pili wa Dario mfalme.
