He hath cast out thine enemy; The King of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee; Thou shalt not fear evil any more. 16 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: 'Fear thou not; O Zion, let not thy hands be slack. 17The LORD thy God is in the midst of thee, A Mighty One who will save; He will rejoice over thee with joy, 18I will gather them that are far from the appointed season, who are of thee, That hast borne the burden of reproach. 19Behold, at that time I will deal with all them that afflict thee; And I will save her that is lame, And gather her that was driven away; And I will make them to be a praise and a name, Whose shame hath been in all the earth. 20 At that time will I bring you in, And at that time will I gather חגי 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 Jehozadak, the high priest, saying: 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.' 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. "Ye have sown much, and brought in little, Ye eat, but ye have not enough, Ye clothe you, but there is none And he that earneth wages earneth wages For a bag with holes. 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 pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. 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 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 is no dew, and the earth hath kept back her produce. "And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the 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.' 12Then Zerubbabel the son of 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 the LORD's messenger in the LORD'S 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. 2 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying: "Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son 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 do 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, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and work; for I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts. "The word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt have I established, and My spirit abideth among you; fear ye not. For thus saith the LORD of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; and I will shake all nations, and the choicest things of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. Mine is the silver, and Mine the gold, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former, saith the LORD of hosts; and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD 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.' Then 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.' 14Then answered Haggai and said: 'So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, saith their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean. 15And now, I pray you, consider from this day and forward - before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD, 16through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty pressmeasures, there were but twenty; "I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to Me, saith the LORD 18consider, I pray you, from this day and forward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it; 19is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree hath not brought forthfrom this day will I bless you.' 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 I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.' In זכריה ZECHARIAH IN the eighth month, 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: "The LORD hath been sore displeased with your fathers. Therefore say thou unto them: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Return unto Me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Return ye now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings; but they did not hear, nor attend unto Me, saith the LORD. "Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever? But My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? so that they turned and said: Like as the LORD of hosts purposed to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath He dealt with us.' that stood among the myrtle-trees answered and said: "These are they whom the LORD hath sent to walk to and fro through the earth.' "And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the myrtle-trees, and said: 'We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.' 12Then the angel of the LORD spoke and said: 'O LORD of hosts, how long wilt Thou not have compassion on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which Thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?' 13And the LORD answered the angel that spoke with me with good words, even comforting words-14so the angel that spoke with me said unto me: 'Proclaim thou, saying: Thus saith the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy; 15and I am very sore displeased with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little displeased, and they 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. 2 And I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, Then said I: 'O my lord, what are and behold four horns. And these?' And the angel that spoke said unto the angel that spoke with with me said unto me: 'I will show me: 'What are these?' And he said thee what these are.' 10And the man 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.' 12 For 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; |