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,

¹V drugem letu kralja Darija, v šestem mesecu, prvi dan meseca, je prišla beseda GOSPODOVA Zerubabelu, sinu Sealtiela, deželnemu oblastniku na Judovem, in Jozuetu, sinu Jozadakovemu, velikemu duhovniku, in je rekel po proroku Hagaju:

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.’”

²Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami: To ljudstvo govori: Ni še prišel čas, čas hiši GOSPODOVI, da jo zgradimo.

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

³A beseda GOSPODOVA je prišla po proroku Hagaju in je rekel:

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

⁴Za vas same pa je čas, da prebivate v svojih z deskami obitih hišah, hiša ta pa bodi pusta?

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

⁵Sedaj pa pravi tako GOSPOD nad vojskami: Pazite na svoja pota!

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.”

⁶Veliko ste sejali, a malo ste spravili pod streho; jeste, pa se ne nasitite, pijete, pa se ne napijete; oblačite se, a nihče se ne ogreje; in kdor prisluži plačilo, ga vrže v raztrgano mošnjo.

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

⁷Tako pravi GOSPOD nad vojskami: Pazite na svoja pota!

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

⁸Pojdite v gore in pripeljite lesa in zidajte hišo! To mi bode prijetno in se oslavim, pravi GOSPOD.

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.

⁹Po velikem ste gledali, in glej, malo je postalo; in če ste kaj prinesli domov, sem to razpihnil. Zakaj to? govori GOSPOD nad vojskami. Zavoljo hiše moje, ker je pusta, a vi hitite vsak za hišo svojo.

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

¹⁰Zato je nebo zadržalo roso nad vami in zemlja je zadržala svoj sad.

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.”

¹¹In poklical sem sušo na deželo in na gore, na žito in vino in olje in na vse, kar rodi zemlja, in na ljudi in na živino in na vse delo rok.

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.

¹²In poslušal je Zerubabel, sin Sealtielov, in Jozue, sin Jozadakov, veliki duhovnik, in ves ostanek ljudstva glas GOSPODA, Boga svojega, in besede proroka Hagaja, kakor ga je bil poslal GOSPOD, njih Bog; in ljudstvo se je balo GOSPODA.

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

¹³Tedaj je rekel Hagaj, poslanec GOSPODOV, v poročilu GOSPODOVEM ljudstvu: Jaz sem z vami, govori GOSPOD.

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,

¹⁴In GOSPOD je zbudil duha Zerubabelu, sinu Sealtielovemu, deželnemu oblastniku na Judovem, in duha Jozuetu, sinu Jozadakovemu, velikemu duhovniku, in duha vsemu ostanku ljudstva; in prišli so in se lotili dela pri hiši GOSPODA nad vojskami, Boga svojega,štiriindvajseti dan šestega meseca, drugo leto kralja Darija.

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

¹⁵štiriindvajseti dan šestega meseca, drugo leto kralja Darija.