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 the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest:
萬軍之耶和華如此說：「這百姓說，建造耶和華殿的時候尚未來到。」
“Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.”
那時耶和華的話臨到先知
Then the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet,
「這殿仍然荒涼，你們自己還住天花板的房屋嗎？
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
現在萬軍之耶和華如此說：你們要省察自己的行為。
Now, therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
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，將工錢裝在破漏的囊中。」
You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
萬軍之耶和華如此說：「你們要省察自己的行為。
“Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
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。
Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD.
你們盼望多得，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，你們各人卻顧自己的房屋〔「顧」原文作「奔」〕。這是萬軍之耶和華說的。
You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.
所以為你們的緣故，天就不降甘露，地也不出土產。
Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.
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。」
And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.”
那時，
Then 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 the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.
耶和華的使者
Then Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with the LORD's message, “I am with you, declares the LORD.”
耶和華激動
And the LORD 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 the LORD of hosts, their God,
這是在
on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.