Haggai 1

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

فِي السَّنَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ لِدَارِيُوسَ الْمَلِكِ، فِي الشَّهْرِ السَّادِسِ فِي أَوَّلِ يَوْمٍ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ، كَانَتْ كَلِمَةُ الرَّبِّ عَنْ يَدِ حَجَّي النَّبِيِّ إِلَى زَرُبَّابِلَ بْنِ شَأَلْتِيئِيلَ وَالِي يَهُوذَا، وَإِلَى يَهُوشَعَ بْنِ يَهُوصَادَاقَ الْكَاهِنِ الْعَظِيمِ قَائِلاً:

Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.

« هكَذَا قَالَ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ قَائِلاً: هذَا الشَّعْبُ قَالَ إِنَّ الْوَقْتَ لَمْ يَبْلُغْ وَقْتَ بِنَاءِ بَيْتِ الرَّبِّ».

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

فَكَانَتْ كَلِمَةُ الرَّبِّ عَنْ يَدِ حَجَّي النَّبِيِّ قَائِلاً:

Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

«هَلِ الْوَقْتُ لَكُمْ أَنْتُمْ أَنْ تَسْكُنُوا فِي بُيُوتِكُمُ الْمُغَشَّاةِ، وَهذَا الْبَيْتُ خَرَابٌ؟

Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

وَالآنَ فَهكَذَا قَالَ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ: اجْعَلُوا قَلْبَكُمْ عَلَى طُرُقِكُمْ.

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

زَرَعْتُمْ كَثِيرًا وَدَخَّلْتُمْ قَلِيلاً. تَأْكُلُونَ وَلَيْسَ إِلَى الشَّبَعِ. تَشْرَبُونَ وَلاَ تَرْوُونَ. تَكْتَسُونَ وَلاَ تَدْفَأُونَ. وَالآخِذُ أُجْرَةً يَأْخُذُ أُجْرَةً لِكِيسٍ مَنْقُوبٍ.

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

« هكَذَا قَالَ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ: اجْعَلُوا قَلْبَكُمْ عَلَى طُرُقِكُمْ.

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

اِصْعَدُوا إِلَى الْجَبَلِ وَأْتُوا بِخَشَبٍ وَابْنُوا الْبَيْتَ، فَأَرْضَى عَلَيْهِ وَأَتَمَجَّدَ، قَالَ الرَّبُّ.

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

انْتَظَرْتُمْ كَثِيرًا وَإِذَا هُوَ قَلِيلٌ. وَلَمَّا أَدْخَلْتُمُوهُ الْبَيْتَ نَفَخْتُ عَلَيْهِ. لِمَاذَا؟ يَقُولُ رَبُّ الْجُنُودِ. لأَجْلِ بَيْتِي الَّذِي هُوَ خَرَابٌ، وَأَنْتُمْ رَاكِضُونَ كُلُّ إِنْسَانٍ إِلَى بَيْتِهِ.

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

لِذلِكَ مَنَعَتِ السَّمَاوَاتُ مِنْ فَوْقِكُمُ النَّدَى، وَمَنَعَتِ الأَرْضُ غَلَّتَهَا.

And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

وَدَعَوْتُ بِالْحَرِّ عَلَى الأَرْضِ وَعَلَى الْجِبَالِ وَعَلَى الْحِنْطَةِ وَعَلَى الْمِسْطَارِ وَعَلَى الزَّيْتِ وَعَلَى مَا تُنْبِتُهُ الأَرْضُ، وَعَلَى النَّاسِ وَعَلَى الْبَهَائِمِ، وَعَلَى كُلِّ أَتْعَابِ الْيَدَيْنِ».

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, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.

حِينَئِذٍ سَمِعَ زَرُبَّابِلُ بْنُ شَأَلْتِيئِيلَ وَيَهُوشَعُ بْنُ يَهُوصَادِقَ الْكَاهِنِ الْعَظِيمِ، وَكُلُّ بَقِيَّةِ الشَّعْبِ صَوْتَ الرَّبِّ إِلهِهِمْ وَكَلاَمَ حَجَّي النَّبِيِّ كَمَا أَرْسَلَهُ الرَّبُّ إِلهُهُمْ. وَخَافَ الشَّعْبُ أَمَامَ وَجْهِ الرَّبِّ.

Then spake Haggai the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.

فَقَالَ حَجَّي رَسُولُ الرَّبِّ بِرِسَالَةِ الرَّبِّ لِجَمِيعِ الشَّعْبِ قَائِلاً: «أَنَا مَعَكُمْ، يَقُولُ الرَّبُّ».

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 came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,

وَنَبَّهَ الرَّبُّ رُوحَ زَرُبَّابِلَ بْنِ شَأَلْتِيئِيلَ وَالِي يَهُوذَا، وَرُوحَ يَهُوشَعَ بْنِ يَهُوصَادِاقَ الْكَاهِنِ الْعَظِيمِ، وَرُوحَ كُلِّ بَقِيَّةِ الشَّعْبِ. فَجَاءُوا وَعَمِلُوا الشُّغْلَ فِي بَيْتِ رَبِّ الْجُنُودِ إِلهِهِمْ،

In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

فِي الْيَوْمِ الرَّابعِ وَالْعِشْرِينَ مِنَ الشَّهْرِ السَّادِسِ، فِي السَّنَةِ الثَّانِيَةِ لِدَارِيُوسَ الْمَلِكِ.