¹Negore rechipiri ramambo Dhariusi, nomwedzi wechitanhatu, pazuva rokutanga romwedzi, shoko raJehovha rakasvika nomuporofita Hagai kuna Zerubhabheri mwanakomana waShearitieri, mubati waJudha, nokuna Joshua mwanakomana waJehozadhaki, mupristi mukuru, richiti,

¹In 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,

²Jehovha wehondo unotaura, achiti, Vanhu ava vanoti nguva ichigere kusvika, iyo nguva yokuvakwa kweimba yaJehovha.

²Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.

³Ipapo shoko raJehovha rakasvika nomuporofita Hagai, richiti,

³Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,

⁴Ko zvino inguva yamungagara imwi mudzimba dzenyu dzakashongedzwa namatanda, imba ino riri dongo here?

⁴Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

⁵Zvino zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Cherekedzai zvamakaita.

⁵Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

⁶Makakusha zvizhinji, asi makacheka zvishoma; munodya, asi hamuguti; munomwa, asi hamugungwi; munofuka, asi hakuna unodziyirwa; unobatira mubayiro unobatira kuti azvichengete muhombodo yakabvooka.

⁶Ye 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.

⁷Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Cherekedzai zvamakaita.

⁷Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

⁸Kwirai mugomo, muuye namatanda, muvake imba iyi; ini ndichaifarira, uye ini ndichakudzwa ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

⁸Go 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.

⁹Makafunga kuwana zvizhinji, tarirai, zvakangoita zvishoma; makati mazviisa kumusha, ini ndikafuridzira pamusoro pazvo. Nemhaka yeiko? Ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha wehondo. Nemhaka yeimba yangu riri dongo, mumwe nomumwe wenyu achimhanyira kumba kwake.

⁹Ye 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.

¹⁰Saka denga rakaramba nedova nemhaka yenyu, nenyika inoramba nezvibereko zvayo.

¹⁰Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

¹¹Ndakadana kuwoma kuuye panyika, napamakomo, napazviyo, napawaini itsva, napamafuta, napane zvinoberekwa nevhu, napavanhu, napazvipfuwo, napamabasa ose amaoko avanhu.

¹¹And 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.

¹²Ipapo Zerubhabheri mwanakomana waShearitieri, naJoshua mwanakomana waJehozadhaki, mupristi mukuru, navanhu vose vakanga vasara, vakateerera inzwi raJehovha Mwari wavo, namashoko omuporofita Hagai, sezvaakanga atumwa naJehovha Mwari wavo; vanhu vakatya pamberi paJehovha.

¹²Then 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.

¹³Ipapo Hagai, nhume yaJehovha, wakataura navanhu sezvaakarairwa neshoko rakatumwa naJehovha, akati, ndinemwi ndizvo zvinotaura Jehovha.

¹³Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.

¹⁴Jehovha akamutsa mweya waZerubhabheri mwanakomana waShearitieri, mubati waJudha, nomweya waJoshua mwanakomana waJehozadhaki, mupristi mukuru, nomweya wavanhu vose vakanga vasara, vakauya vakabata paimba yaJehovha wehondo, Mwari wavo,

¹⁴And 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,

¹⁵nezuva ramakumi maviri namana romwedzi wechitanhatu, negore rechipiri ramambo Dhariusi.

¹⁵In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.