The Book of the Prophet Aggeus
(Haggai)
("festive"... The first
Prophet to prophecy after the captivity)
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Chapter 1
In the second year of king
Darius, in the sixth month, the first day of the month, came the
word of the Lord ( by the Prophet Aggeus ) unto Zorobabel the son of
Salathiel the prince of Judah, and to Jesua the son of Josedech the
high priest, saying: Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, and sayeth:
This people doth say: The time is not yet come to build up the Lords
house. Then spake the Lord by the Prophet Aggeus, and said: Ye
yourselves can find time to dwell in *siled houses, and shall this
house lay waste? Consider now your own ways in your hearts ( sayeth
the Lord of hosts )ye sow much, but yee bring little in: ye eat, but
ye have not enough: ye drink, but ye are not filled: ye deck
yourselves, but ye are not warm: and he that earneth any wage,
putteth it in a broken purse.
Thus sayeth the Lord of hosts: Consider your own ways in your
hearts, get you up to the mountain, fetch wood, and build up the
house: that it may be acceptable unto me, and that I my show my
honor, sayeth the Lord. Ye looked for much, and lo it is come to
little: and though ye bring it home, yet do I blow it away. And why
so, sayeth the Lord of hosts? Even because that my house layeth so
waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. Wherefore the heaven
is forbidden to give you any dew, and the earth is forbidden to give
you increase. I have called for a drouth, both upon the land and
upon the mountains, upon corn, upon wine, upon oil, upon everything
that the ground bringeth forth, upon men and upon cattle, yee and
upon all handy labor.
Now when Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesua the son of
Josedech the high priest with the remnant of the people, heard the
voice of the Lord their God, and the words of the Prophet Aggeus (
like as the Lord their God had sent him ) the people did fear the
Lord. Then Aggeus the Lords angel said in the Lords message to the
people: I am with you, sayeth the Lord. So the Lord * waked up the
spirit of Zorobabel the Prince of Juda, and the spirit of Jesua the
son of Josedech the high priest, and the spirit of the remnant of
the people: that they came and labored, in the house of the Lord of
hosts their God.
* siled: The horizontal member that bears the upright portion of a
frame, especially the horizontal member that forms the base of a
window at the window siles; comes to rememberance the windows of
those who hung on their sills and accused ..as was with Davids wife
..and Jezzebell.
*To wake up the spirit in a man is, when God by his spirit comforts
and makes bold the heart, to take upon him without fear any act or
deed of great importance. MN
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Chapter 2
Upon the twenty fourth day of
the sixth month, in the second year of king Darius, the twenty first
day of the seventh month, came the word of the Lord by the Prophet
Aggeus, saying: speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel prince of
Juda, and to Jesua the son of Josedech the high priest, and to the
residue of the people, and say: Who is left among you, that saw this
house in her first beauty? But what think ye now by it? Is it not in
your eyes, even as though it were nothing? Nevertheless be of good
cheer O Zorobabel ( sayeth the Lord ) be of good comfort, O Jesua
thou son of Josedech high priest: take good hearts unto you also,
all ye people of the land, sayeth the Lord of hosts and do according
to the word ( for I am with you, sayeth the Lord of hosts ) like as
I agreed with you, when ye came out of the land of Egypt: and my
spirit shall be among you, fear ye not.
For thus sayeth the Lord of hosts: yet once more will I shake
heaven and earth, the sea, and the dry land yee I will move all
Heathen, and the comfort of all Heathen shall come, and so I will
fill this house with honor, sayeth the Lord of hosts. The silver is
mine, the gold is mine, sayeth the Lord of hosts. Thus the glory of
the last house shall be greater than the first, sayeth the Lord of
hosts: and in this place will I give peace, sayeth the Lord of
hosts.
The twenty fourth day of the ninth month in the second year of
king Darius, came the word of the Lord unto the Prophet Aggeus,
saying: Ask the priests concerning the law, and say: if one bear
holy flesh in his coat lape, and with his lappe do touch the bread,
potage, wine, oil or any other meat: shall he be holy also? The
priests answered and said: No. Then said Aggeus: Now if one being
defiled with a dead carcass, touch any of these: shall it also be
unclean? The Priests gave answer and said: yee, it shall be unclean.
Then Aggeus answered and said: even so is this people and this
nation before me, sayeth the Lord: and so are all the works of their
hands, yee and all that they offer is unclean.
And now ( I pray you ) consider from this day forth, and how
it hath gone with you afore: or ever there was layed one stone upon
another in the temple of the Lord: that when ye came to a corn heap
of twenty bushels, there were scarce ten: and that when ye came to
the wine press for to pour out fifty pots of wine, there were scarce
twenty. For I smote you with heat, blasting and hailstones in all
the labors of your hands: yet was there none of you, that would turn
unto me, sayeth the Lord. Consider then from this day forth and
afore, namely, from the twenty fourth day of the ninth month, unto
the day that the foundation of the Lords temple was layed: mark it
well, is not the seed yet in the barn? have not the vines, the fig
trees, the pomegranates and the olive trees been unfruitful? but
from this day forth, I shall make them to prosper.
Moreover the twenty fourth day of the month came the word of
the Lord unto Aggeus again saying: Speak to Zorobabel the prince of
Juda, and say: I will shake both heaven and earth, and over through
the seat of the kingdoms, yee and destroy the mighty kingdom of the
Heathen. I will overthrow the chariots, and those that sit upon
then, so that both horse and man shall fall down, every man through
his neighbors sword. And as for thee, O Zorobabel ( sayeth the Lord
of hosts ) tho son of Salathiel my servant: I will take thee (
sayeth the Lord ) at the same time, and make thee as a seal, for I
have chosen the, sayeth the Lord of hosts.
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