HAGGAI חגי HAGGAI the In the second year of Darius the is no dew, and the earth hath kept king, in the sixth month, in the back her produce. "And I called for upon first day of the month, came the word a drought upon the land, and of the LORD by Haggai the prophet mountains, and upon the corn, and unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, upon the wine, and upon the oil, and governor of Judah, and to Joshua upon that which the ground bringeth the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, forth, and upon men, and upon catsaying: Thus speaketh the LORD tle, and upon all the labour of the of hosts, saying: This people say: The time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be built.' "Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying: 'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste? "Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. hands.' son of. the 12Then Zerubbabel Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, hearkened unto the voice of the LORD their God, and unto the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him; and the people did fear before the LORD. 13Then spoke Haggai "Ye have sown much, and brought the LORD'S messenger in the LORD'S in little, Ye eat, but ye have not enough, Ye clothe you, but there is none warm; And he that earneth wages earneth For a bag with holes. message unto the people, saying: 'I am with you, saith the LORD.' 14And 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 did work in the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, 15in the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. "Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. Go up to the hill-country, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleas-2 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, ure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. Ye looked for much, and, came the word of the LORD by Haggai lo, it came to little; and when ye the prophet, saying: "Speak now to brought it home, I did blow upon it. Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, govWhy? saith the LORD of hosts. Be-ernor of Judah, and to Joshua the son cause of My house that lieth waste, while ye run every man for his own house. 10Therefore over you the heaven hath kept back, so that there of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying: Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? and how de 757 ye see it now? is not such a one as noth- the LORD; and so is every work of ing in your eyes? Yet now be strong, their hands; and that which they offer O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be there is unclean. 15And now, Ι pray strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, you, consider from this day and forthe high priest; and be strong, all ye ward- before a stone was laid upon people of the land, saith the LORD, a stone in the temple of the LORD, and work; for I am with you, saith the 16through all that time, when one came LORD of hosts. "The word that I cove- to a heap of twenty measures, there nanted with you when ye came out of were but ten; when one came to the Egypt have I established, and My winevat to draw out fifty pressspirit abideth among you; fear ye not. measures, there were but twenty; For thus saith the LORD of hosts: "I smote you with blasting and with Yet once, it is a little while, and I will mildew and with hail in all the work of shake the heavens, and the earth, and your hands; yet ye turned not to Me, the sea, and the dry land; and I will saith the LORD 18consider, I pray shake all nations, and the choicest you, from this day and forward, from things of all nations shall come, and the four and twentieth day of the I will fill this house with glory, saith ninth month, even from the day that the LORD of hosts. Mine is the silver, the foundation of the LORD's temple and Mine the gold, saith the LORD of was laid, consider it; 19is the seed yet hosts. The glory of this latter house in the barn? yea, the vine, and the shall be greater than that of the former, fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the saith the LORD of hosts; and in this olive-tree hath not brought forthplace will I give peace, saith the LORD from this day will I bless you.' of hosts.' 10In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying: 'Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Ask now the priests for instruction, saying: If one bear hallowed flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy?' And the priests answered and said: 'No.' 13Then said Haggai: 'If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean?' And the priests answered and said: 'It shall be unclean.' Then answered Haggai and said: 'So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, saith 20 And the word of the LORD came the second time unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying: 21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying: I will shake the heavens and the earth; "and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, My servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet; for Í have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.' In זכריה ZECHARIAH In the eighth month, in the second that stood among the myrtle-trees year of Darius, came the word of answered and said: "These are they the LORD unto Zechariah the son of whom the LORD hath sent to walk to Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the and fro through the earth.' "And prophet, saying: "The LORD hath they answered the angel of the LORD been sore displeased with your fathers. that stood among the myrtle-trees, "Therefore say thou unto them: Thus and said: 'We have walked to and fro saith the LORD of hosts: Return unto through the earth, and, behold, all Me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.' return unto you, saith the LORD of 12Then the angel of the LORD spoke and hosts. Be ye not as your fathers, unto said: 'O LORD of hosts, how long wilt whom the former prophets proclaimed, Thou not have compassion on Jesaying: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: rusalem and on the cities of Judah, Return ye now from your evil ways, against which Thou hast had indignaand from your evil doings; but they tion these threescore and ten years?' did not hear, nor attend unto Me, 13And the LORD answered the angel saith the LORD. "Your fathers, where that spoke with me with good words, are they? and the prophets, do they even comforting words so the angel live for ever? But My words and that spoke with me said unto me: 'ProMy statutes, which I commanded My claim thou, saying: Thus saith the servants the prophets, did they not LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Jeruovertake your fathers? so that they salem and for Zion with a great jealturned and said: Like as the LORD of ousy; 15and I am very sore displeased hosts purposed to do unto us, accord- with the nations that are at ease; for ing to our ways, and according to our I was but a little displeased, and they doings, so hath He dealt with us.' helped for evil. 16Therefore thus saith the LORD: I return to Jerusalem with compassions: My house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth over Jerusalem. 17Again, proclaim, saying: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: My cities shall again overflow with prosperity; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.' "Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Shebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo, the prophet, saying "I saw in the night, and behold a man riding upon a red horse, and he stood among the myrtle-trees that were in the bottom; and behind him there were horses, red, sorrel, and white. Then said I: 'O my lord, what are these?' And the angel that spoke with me said unto me: 'I will show thee what these are.' 1oAnd the man 2 And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns. And I said unto the angel that spoke with me: 'What are these?' And he said unto me: 'These are the horns which "And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and behold a man with a measuring line in his hand. "Then said I: 'Whither goest thou?' And he said unto me: 'To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.' And, behold, the angel that spoke with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, and said unto him: 'Run, speak to this young man, saying: Jerusalem shall be inhabited without walls, for the multitude of men and cattle therein. "For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and I will be the glory in the midst of her. 10Ho, ho, flee then from the land of the north, saith the LORD; for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD. "Ho, Zion, escape, thou that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.' 12For thus saith the LORD of hosts, who sent me after glory unto the nations which spoiled you: 'Surely, he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye. For, behold, I will shake My hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them'; and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me. 14 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion; for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the LORD. 15And many nations shall join themselves to the LORD in that day, and shall be My people, and I will dwell in the midst of thee'; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto thee. 16And the LORD shall inherit Judah as His portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. "Be silent, all flesh, before the LORD; for He is aroused out of His holy habitation. 3 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to accuse him. And the LORD said unto Satan: 'The LORD rebuke thee, O Satan, yea, the LORD that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee; is not this man a brand plucked out of the fire?' 'Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel. And he answered and spoke unto those that stood before him, saying: 'Take the filthy garments from off him.' And unto him he said: 'Behold, I cause thine iniquity to pass from thee, and I will clothe thee with robes.' And I said: 'Let them set a fair mitre upon his head.' So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments; and the angel of the LORD Stood by. And the angel of the LORD forewarned Joshua, saying: "Thus saith the LORD of hosts: If thou wilt walk in My ways, and if thou wilt keep My charge, and wilt also judge My house, and wilt also keep My courts, then I will give thee free access among these that stand by. "Hear now, O Joshua the high priest, thou and thy fellows that sit before thee; for they are men that are a sign; for, behold, I will bring forth My servant the Shoot. For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua; upon one stone are seven facets; behold, I will engrave the graving thereof, saith the LORD of hosts: And I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day. 10In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig-tree.' "Then answered I, and said unto him: 'What are these two olive-trees upon the right side of the candlestick and upon the left side thereof?' 12And I answered the second time, and said unto him: 'What are these two olive branches, which are beside the two golden spouts, that empty the golden oil out of themselves?" 13 And he answered me and said: 'Knowest thou not what these are?' And I said: 'No, my lord.' 14Then said he: 'These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole And the angel that spoke with me returned, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep. 2And he said unto me: 'What seest thou?' And I said: 'I have seen, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes, earth.' yea, seven, to the lamps, which are up-5 Then again I lifted up mine eyes, on the top thereof; and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.' And I answered and spoke to the angel that spoke with me, saying: 'What are these, my lord?' "Then the angel that spoke with me answered and said unto me: 'Knowest thou not what these are?' And I said: 'No, my lord.' Then he answered and spoke unto me, saying: "This is the word of the LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying: Not by might, nor by power, but by My spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. "Who art thou, O great mountain before Zerubbabel? thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it.' Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: "The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and thou shalt know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. 10 For who hath despised the day of small things? even they shall see with joy the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel, even these seven, which are the eyes of the LORD, that run to and fro through the whole earth.' and saw, and behold a flying roll. "And he said unto me: 'What seest thou?' And I answered: 'I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.' Then said he unto me: 'This is the curse that goeth forth over the face of the whole land; for every one that stealeth shall be swept away on the one side like it; and every one that sweareth shall be swept away on the other side like it. I cause it to go forth, saith the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that sweareth falsely by My name; and it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with the timber thereof and the stones thereof.' He "Then the angel that spoke with me went forth, and said unto me: 'Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.' And I said: 'What is it?' And he said: "This is the measure that goeth forth.' said moreover: "This is their eye in all the land—and, behold, there was lifted up a round piece of leadand this is a woman sitting in the midst of the measure.' And he said: This is Wickedness.' And he cast |