¹责备人民拖延重建圣殿

¹In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been by the hand of Haggai the prophet, unto Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and unto Joshua son of Josedech, the high priest, saying:

²“万军之耶和华这样说：‘这民说，重建耶和华殿宇的时候还没有到。’”

²Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: This people! — they have said, `The time hath not come, The time the house of Jehovah [is] to be built.`

³于是，耶和华的话临到哈该先知说：

³And there is a word of Jehovah by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:

⁴“这殿宇仍然荒废，岂是你们住在有天花板的房屋的时候吗？”

⁴Is it time for you — you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?

⁵现在万军之耶和华这样说：“你们要反省自己的行为。

⁵And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.

⁶你们撒的种多，收割的却少；你们吃，却吃不饱；你们喝，却喝不足；你们穿衣服，却穿不暖；得工钱的，却把工钱放在破袋里。”

⁶Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

⁷劝勉人民动工重建万军之耶和华这样说：“你们要反省自己的行为。

⁷Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.

⁸你们要上山取木材，建造殿宇；我必因此喜悦，并且得荣耀。”耶和华说：

⁸Go up the mountain, and ye have brought in wood, And build the house, and I am pleased with it. And I am honoured, said Jehovah.

⁹“你们期望丰收，反倒歉收；你们收到家里的，我就吹去。”为什么呢？万军之耶和华说：“因为我的殿宇荒废，你们各人却为自己的房屋奔驰。

⁹Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought [it] home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? — an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running — each to his house,

¹⁰所以，因你们的缘故，天就不降甘露，地也不出土产。

¹⁰Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.

¹¹我叫干旱临到大地、群山、五谷、新酒、新油、地上的出产、人畜和人手劳碌得来的一切。”

¹¹And I proclaim draught on the land, And on the mountains, and on the corn, And on the new wine, and on the oil, And on what the ground doth bring forth, And on man, and on beast, And on all labour of the hands.`

¹²劝勉的果效那时，撒拉铁的儿子所罗巴伯、约撒答的儿子大祭司约书亚和所有余剩的子民，都听从了耶和华他们　神的话，听从了耶和华他们　神所差来的哈该先知的话。众民在耶和华面前都存着敬畏的心。

¹²And Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua son of Josedech, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people, do hearken to the voice of Jehovah their God, and unto the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him, and the people are afraid of the face of Jehovah.

¹³耶和华的使者哈该，奉耶和华的命，对众民说：“耶和华说：‘我与你们同在。’”

¹³And Haggai, messenger of Jehovah, in messages of Jehovah, speaketh to the people, saying: `I [am] with you, an affirmation of Jehovah.`

¹⁴于是耶和华激发了撒拉铁的儿子、犹大省长所罗巴伯的心，和约撒答的儿子大祭司约书亚的心，以及所有余剩子民的心，他们就来兴工建造万军之耶和华他们　神的殿宇。

¹⁴And Jehovah doth stir up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they come in, and do work in the house of Jehovah of Hosts their God,

¹⁵那时是大利乌王第二年六月二十四日。

¹⁵in the twenty and fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.