哈該書

第1章

1 大流士王第二年六月初一日,耶和華的話藉先知哈該向猶大省長撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞說:

2 大軍之耶和華如此說:「這百姓說,建造耶和華殿的時候尚未來到。」

3 那時耶和華的話臨到先知哈該說:

4 「這殿仍然荒涼,豈是[for]你們自己住天花板的房屋的時候[Is it time]嗎?

5 現在大軍之耶和華如此說:你們要省察自己的行為。

6 你們撒的種多,收的卻少;你們吃,卻不得飽;喝,卻不得足;穿衣服,卻不得暖;得工錢的,將工錢裝在破漏的[bag]中。」

7 大軍之耶和華如此說:「你們要省察自己的行為。

8 你們要上山取木料,建造這殿;我就因此喜樂,且得榮耀,這是耶和華說的。

9 你們盼望多得,不料[lo],所得的卻少;你們收到家中,我就吹去。這是為甚麼呢?因為我的殿荒涼,你們卻各奔往[run]自己的房屋。這是大軍之耶和華說的。

10 所以你們上面的天[the heaven over you]不降甘露,地也不出土產。

11 我命乾旱臨到地土、山岡、五穀、新酒,和油,並地上的出產、人民、牲畜,以及人手一切勞碌得來的。」

12 那時,撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞,並剩下的百姓,都聽從耶和華─他們神的話和先知哈該奉耶和華─他們神差來所說的話,百姓也在耶和華面前存敬畏的心。

13 耶和華的使者哈該奉耶和華差遣對百姓說:「耶和華說:我與你們同在。」

14 耶和華激動猶大省長撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞,並剩下之百姓的[spirit],他們就來,為大軍之耶和華─他們神的殿作工,

15 這是在大流士王第二年六月二十四日。

Haggai

Chapter 1

1 IN the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

2 Thus says the LORD of hosts: This people say the time has not yet come to build the house of the LORD.

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

4 Is it a time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?

5 Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

6 You have sown much and stored little: you eat, but you never are satisfied; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but you are not warm; and he who trades among you, earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.

7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

8 Go up to the mountain, and bring timber and build this house; and I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified in it, says the LORD.

9 You looked for much, and, 1o, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why should these things happen? says the LORD. Because of my house that is waste, and you hasten every man to take care of his own house.

10 Therefore the heavens over you have stayed from dew and the earth has withheld its fruit.

11 And I have called for a drought upon the land and upon the mountains, and upon the grain and upon the wine and upon the oil and upon everything that the ground brings forth, and upon men and upon cattle and upon all the labor of their hands.

12 Then 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, whom the LORD their God had sent to them, and the people did fear before the LORD.

13 Then spoke Haggai the LORD'S messenger according to the LORD'S message to the people, saying, I am with you, says the LORD of hosts.

14 And 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 went and did work upon the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

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

哈該書

第1章

Haggai

Chapter 1

1 大流士王第二年六月初一日,耶和華的話藉先知哈該向猶大省長撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞說:

1 IN the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

2 大軍之耶和華如此說:「這百姓說,建造耶和華殿的時候尚未來到。」

2 Thus says the LORD of hosts: This people say the time has not yet come to build the house of the LORD.

3 那時耶和華的話臨到先知哈該說:

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

4 「這殿仍然荒涼,豈是[for]你們自己住天花板的房屋的時候[Is it time]嗎?

4 Is it a time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?

5 現在大軍之耶和華如此說:你們要省察自己的行為。

5 Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

6 你們撒的種多,收的卻少;你們吃,卻不得飽;喝,卻不得足;穿衣服,卻不得暖;得工錢的,將工錢裝在破漏的[bag]中。」

6 You have sown much and stored little: you eat, but you never are satisfied; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but you are not warm; and he who trades among you, earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.

7 大軍之耶和華如此說:「你們要省察自己的行為。

7 Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

8 你們要上山取木料,建造這殿;我就因此喜樂,且得榮耀,這是耶和華說的。

8 Go up to the mountain, and bring timber and build this house; and I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified in it, says the LORD.

9 你們盼望多得,不料[lo],所得的卻少;你們收到家中,我就吹去。這是為甚麼呢?因為我的殿荒涼,你們卻各奔往[run]自己的房屋。這是大軍之耶和華說的。

9 You looked for much, and, 1o, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why should these things happen? says the LORD. Because of my house that is waste, and you hasten every man to take care of his own house.

10 所以你們上面的天[the heaven over you]不降甘露,地也不出土產。

10 Therefore the heavens over you have stayed from dew and the earth has withheld its fruit.

11 我命乾旱臨到地土、山岡、五穀、新酒,和油,並地上的出產、人民、牲畜,以及人手一切勞碌得來的。」

11 And I have called for a drought upon the land and upon the mountains, and upon the grain and upon the wine and upon the oil and upon everything that the ground brings forth, and upon men and upon cattle and upon all the labor of their hands.

12 那時,撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞,並剩下的百姓,都聽從耶和華─他們神的話和先知哈該奉耶和華─他們神差來所說的話,百姓也在耶和華面前存敬畏的心。

12 Then 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, whom the LORD their God had sent to them, and the people did fear before the LORD.

13 耶和華的使者哈該奉耶和華差遣對百姓說:「耶和華說:我與你們同在。」

13 Then spoke Haggai the LORD'S messenger according to the LORD'S message to the people, saying, I am with you, says the LORD of hosts.

14 耶和華激動猶大省長撒拉鐵的兒子所羅巴伯和約撒答的兒子大祭司約書亞,並剩下之百姓的[spirit],他們就來,為大軍之耶和華─他們神的殿作工,

14 And 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 went and did work upon the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

15 這是在大流士王第二年六月二十四日。

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