Now therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Consider your
ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in little. Ye eat, but ye
have not enough. Ye drink; but ye are not filled with drink. Ye
clothe you; but there is none warm. And he that earneth wages,
earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the
Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways. Go up to the mountain, 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,
which is waste; and ye run every man to his own house. There-
fore the heaven over you is stayed from dew; and the earth is
stayed from her fruit and I called for a drouth upon the land, and
upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine,
Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways. Go up to
the mountain, and bring wood, and build the House; and I will
take pleasure in it; and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.-Then
Zerubbabel, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of
the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai their prophet; and
the people did fear before the Lord. Then spake Haggai, the
Lord's messenger, in the Lord's message to the people, saying, I
am with you, saith the Lord. And the Lord stirred up the spirit
of Zerubbabel, 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.
In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month,
came the word of the Lord by the prophet Haggai, saying,—Who
is left among you that saw this House in her first glory? and how
do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in comparison of it as
nothing? Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord; and
be strong, O Joshua, the highpriest; and be strong, all ye people
of the land, and work: for I am with you, saith the Lord of Hosts.
According to the word that I covenanted with you, when ye came
out of Egypt, so My Spirit remaineth among you fear ye not.
Thus saith the Lord of Hosts: Ask now the priests concerning
the law, saying, If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment,
.and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any
meat, shall it be 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. Then answered Haggai and said: So is
this people, and so is this nation before Me, saith the Lord; and
so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there
is unclean.
« PreviousContinue » |