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, 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:

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

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.`

³Ipapo shoko raJehovha rakasvika nomuporofita Hagai, richiti,

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

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

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

⁵Zvino zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Cherekedzai zvamakaita.

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

⁷Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Cherekedzai zvamakaita.

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

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

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.

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.

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,

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

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

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

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.`

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.

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.

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

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

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 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,

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

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