Young’s Literal TranslationBerean Standard Bible

1. A Call to Rebuild the Temple

   (Ezra 5:1–5)

2. 1YLTIn the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, hath a word of Jehovah been by the hand of Haggai the prophet, unto Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and unto Joshua son of Josedech, the high priest, saying:BSBBSB: In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating
3. 2YLTThus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: This people! — they have said, 'The time hath not come, The time the house of Jehovah is to be built.'BSBBSB: that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”
4. 3YLTAnd there is a word of Jehovah by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:BSBBSB: Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying:
5. 4YLTIs it time for you — you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?BSBBSB: “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
6. 5YLTAnd now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.BSBBSB: Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
7. 6YLTYe have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.BSBBSB: You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
8. 7YLTThus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.BSBBSB: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
9. 8YLTGo up the mountain, and ye have brought in wood, And build the house, and I am pleased with it. And I am honoured, said Jehovah.BSBBSB: Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.
10. 9YLTLooking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought it home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? — an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running — each to his house,BSBBSB: You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
11. 10YLTTherefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.BSBBSB: Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.
12. 11YLTAnd I proclaim draught on the land, And on the mountains, and on the corn, And on the new wine, and on the oil, And on what the ground doth bring forth, And on man, and on beast, And on all labour of the hands.'BSBBSB: I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”

13. The People Obey

14. 12YLTAnd Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, and Joshua son of Josedech, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people, do hearken to the voice of Jehovah their God, and unto the words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God had sent him, and the people are afraid of the face of Jehovah.BSBBSB: Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD.
15. 13YLTAnd Haggai, messenger of Jehovah, in messages of Jehovah, speaketh to the people, saying: 'I am with you, an affirmation of Jehovah.'BSBBSB: Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, delivered the message of the LORD to the people: “I am with you,” declares the LORD.
16. 14YLTAnd Jehovah doth stir up the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they come in, and do work in the house of Jehovah of Hosts their God,BSBBSB: So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,
17. 15YLTin the twenty and fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.BSBBSB: on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.