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Bible - Book 42: Haggai
THE HOLY BIBLE
Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions in
Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at Douay A.D.
1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with the Latin Vulgate by
Bishop Richard Challoner A.D. 1749-1752
THE PROPHECY OF AGGEUS
AGGEUS was one of those that returned from the captivity of Babylon,
in the first year of the reign of king Cyrus. He was sent by the Lord,
in the second year of the reign of king Darius, the son of Hystaspes,
to exhort Zorobabel the prince of Juda, and Jesus the high priest, to
the building of the temple; which they had begun, but left off again
through the opposition of the Samaritans. In consequence of this
exhortation they proceeded in the building and finished the temple.
And the prophet was commissioned by the Lord to assure them that this
second temple should be more glorious than the former, because the
Messiah should honour it with his presence: signifying withal how much
the church of the New Testament should excel that of the Old
Testament.
Aggeus Chapter 1
The people are reproved for neglecting to build the temple. They are
encouraged to set about the work.
1:1. In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the
first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of
Aggeus the prophet, to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, governor of
Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, saying:
1:2. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith: The time
is not yet come for building the house of the Lord.
1:3. And the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet,
saying:
1:4. Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie
desolate?
1:5. And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider
your ways.
1:6. You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but
have not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with
drink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he
that hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes.
1:7. Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways:
1:8. Go up to the mountain, bring timber, and build the house: and it
shall be acceptable to me, and I shall be glorified, saith the Lord.
1:9. You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you
brought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts?
because my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own
house.
1:10. Therefore the heavens over you were stayed from giving dew, and
the earth was hindered from yielding her fruits:
1:11. 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 all that the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon
beasts, and upon all the labour of the hands.
1:12. Then Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of
Josedec the high priest, and all the remnant of the people hearkened
to the voice of the Lord their God, and to the words of Aggeus the
prophet, as the Lord their God sent him to them: and the people feared
before the Lord.
1:13. And Aggeus the messenger of the Lord, as one of the messengers
of the Lord, spoke, saying to the people: I am with you, saith the
Lord.
1:14. And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zorobabel the son of
Salathiel governor of Juda, and the spirit of Jesus the son of Josedec
the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people: and
they went in, and did the work in the house of the Lord of Hosts their
God.