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, the Word of Yahweh “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations. came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

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

²“This is what Yahweh of Armies says: These people say, ‘The time hasn’t yet come, the time for Yahweh’s house to be built.’”

³Ipapo shoko raJehovha rakasvika nomuporofita Hagai, richiti,

³Then the Word of Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, saying,

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

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

⁵Zvino zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Cherekedzai zvamakaita.

⁵Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: 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.

⁶You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

⁷Zvanzi naJehovha wehondo, Cherekedzai zvamakaita.

⁷This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.

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

⁸Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.

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.

⁹“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

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

¹⁰Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

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

¹¹I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor 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 Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of Yahweh, their God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” , and the words of Haggai, the prophet, as Yahweh, their God, had sent him; and the people feared Yahweh.

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

¹³Then Haggai, Yahweh’s messenger, spoke Yahweh’s message to the people, saying, “I am with you,” says Yahweh.

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,

¹⁴Yahweh stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of Yahweh of Armies, their God,

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

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