18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

CHAP. II.

desolation: the residue of my peo-
ple shall spoil them, and the rem-
nant of my people shall possess them.
c 10 This shall they have for their
pride, because they have reproach-
ed and magnified themselves against
the people of the LORD of hosts.
11 The LORD will be terrible un-

GATHER yourselves together, to them; for he will famish all the

yea, gather together, O na-gods of the earth; and men shall tion not desired; worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

w 12 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.

13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wilderness.

t 2 Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORD's anger come upon you. d 3 Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD's an-r 14 And flocks shall lie down in ger. the midst of her, all the beasts of the g4 ¶ For Gaza shall be forsaken, nations: both the cormorant and the and Ashkelon a desolation: they bittern shall lodge in the upper linshall drive out Ashdod at the noon-tels of it; their voice shall sing in day, and Ekron shall be rooted up. the windows; desolation shall be in w 5 Wo unto the inhabitants of the the thresholds: for he shall uncover sea coasts, the nation of the Chere- the cedar work. thites! the word of the LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no in-sides me: how is she become a dehabitant. solation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand. CHAP. III.

6 And the sea coast shall be dwellings, and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks. g 7 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shai. feed thereupon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening for the LORD their God shall visit them, and turn away their captivity.

15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none be

to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing

c 2 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the LORD; she drew not pear to her God.

3 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.

e 8 ¶ I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border. p 4 Her prophets are light and 9 Therefore, as I live, saith the treacherous persons: her priests LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have polluted the sanctuary, they Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, have done violence to the law. and the children of Ammon as Go- 5 The just LORD is in the midst morrah, even the breeding of net-thereof; he will not do iniquity: tles, and salt-pits, and a perpetual every morning doth he bring his

HAGGAI.

judgment to light, he faileth not; c 13 The remnant of Israel shall
but the unjust knoweth no shame. not do iniquity, nor speak lies; nei-
6 I have cut off the nations: their ther shall a deceitful tongue be
towers are desolate; I made their found in their mouth: for they shall
streets waste, that none passeth by feed and lie down, and none shall
their cities are destroyed, so that make them afraid.
there is no man, that there is none
inhabitant.

c 7 I said, Surely thou wilt fear me,
thou wilt receive instruction; so
their dwelling should not be cut off,
howsoever I punished them: but they
rose early, and corrupted all their
doings.

14 Sing, O daughter of Zion; joice with all the heart, O daughter shout, O Israel; be glad and reof Jerusalem.

b 15 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the King of Israel, thee: thou shalt not see evil any even the LORD, is in the midst of more.

t8 Therefore, wait ye upon me, saith the LORD, until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to 16 In that day it shall be said to I may assemble the kingdoms, to Zion, Let not thy hands be slack. pour upon them mine indignation, b 17 The LORD thy God in the even all my fierce anger: for all the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, earth shall be devoured with the he will rejoice over thee with joy; fire of my jealousy. d 9 For then will I turn to the peo-over thee with singing. he will rest in his love, he will joy ple a pure language, that they may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent.

10 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.

c 1 In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy moun

tain.

d 12 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.

rowful for the solemn assembly, who
18 I will gather them that are sor
of it was a burden.
are of thee, to whom the reproach

undo all that afflict thee: and I will 19 Behold, at that time I will her that was driven out; and I will save her that halteth, and gather get them praise and fame in every land where they have been put to shame.

b 20 At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I ga ther you: for I will make you a of the earth, when I turn back your name and a praise among all people captivity before your eyes, saith the LORD

CHAP. I.

¶ HAGGAI.

I the king, in the sixth month, 2 Thus speaketh the LORD_of in the first day of the month, came hosts, saying, This people say, The the word of the LORD by Haggai time is not come, the time that the the prophet unto Zerubbabel the LORD's house should be built son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah,ƒ 3 Then came the word of the

and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the second year of Darius the high priest, saying,

LORD by Haggai the prophet, say-
ing,
4 Is it time for you, O ye, to
dwell in your ceiled houses, and this
house lie waste?

d 5 Now, therefore, thus saith the
LORD of hosts;

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,

15 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the second

i6 Ye have sownder your ways. year of Darius the king.

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.

d 7 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

8 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. f 9 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 is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

10 Therefore, the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

11 And I called for a drought| upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new 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.

CHAP. II.

N the seventh month, in the one Γ and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,

2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying,

3 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?

d 4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech 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:

5 According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came ou' of Egypt, so my Spirit remaineth among you; fear ye not. r 6 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;

f 12 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jo-7 And I will shake all nations, sedech, the high priest, with all the and the Desire of all nations shall remnant of the people, obeyed the come: and I will fill this house with voice of the LORD their God, and glory, saith the LORD of hosts. the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.

8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. r 9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.

13 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.10 ¶ In the four and twentieth t 14 And the LORD stirred up the day of the ninth month, in the sespirit of Zerubbabel the son of She-cond year of Darius, came the word altiel, governor of Judah, and the of the LORD by Haggai the prospirit of Joshua the son of Josedech,|phet, saying,

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turned not to me, saith the LORD.

d 11 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,

12 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.

L 13 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.

18 Consider now from this day and upward, 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.

b 19 Is the seed yet in the barn?
yea, as yet the vine, and the fig-tree,
and the pomegranate, and the olive-
tree, hath not brought forth from
this day will I bless you.
ƒ 20 And again the word of the
LORD came unto Haggai in the four
and twentieth day of the month, say-
ing,

21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

14 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 bands; and that which they offer there is unclean. 22 And I will overthrow the 15 And now, I pray you, consi-throne of kingdoms, and I will deder from this day and upward, from stroy the strength of the kingdoms before a stone was laid upon a stone of the heathen; and I will overthrow in the temple of the LORD: the chariots, and those that ride in f 16 Since those days were, when them; and the horses and their rione came to a heap of twenty mea- ders shall come down, every one by sures, there were but ten: when one the sword of his brother. came to the press-fat for to draw b 23 In that day, saith the LORD of out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

c 17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye

CHAP. I.

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.

T ZECHARIAH.

evil ways, and from your evil dothe eighth month, in the se-ings: but they did not hear, nor

ever?

the word of the LORD unto Zecha- 5 Your fathers, where are they? riah, the son of Barachiah, the son and the prophets, do they live for of Iddo the prophet, saying, 2 The LORD hath been sore dis-e 6 But, my words and my sta pleased with your fathers.

d 3 Therefore, say thou unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.

tutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers and they returned and said, Like as the LORD of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with

c4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have us. cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD f 7 ¶ Upon the four and twentieth of hosts; Turn ye now from your day of the eleventh month, which is

the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Barachiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

v8 I saw by 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 were there red horses, speckled, and white.

abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

18 T Then lifted I up mine eyes, and saw, and behold four horns.

19 And I said unto the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

20 And the LORD shewed me four carpenters.

9 Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talk-r 21 Then said I, What come these ed with me said unto me, I will shew to do? And he spake, saying, These thee what these be. are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it. CHAP. II.

10 And the man 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.

11 And they answered the angel of the LORD that stood among the

walked to and fro through the earth, with a measuring line in his hand. and behold, all the earth sitteth still,g 2 Then said I, Whither goest and is at rest. thou? And he said unto me, To g 12 Then the angel of the LORD measure Jerusalem, to see whai is answered and said, O LORD of the breadth thereof, and what is the hosts, how long wilt thou not have length thereof. mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

13 And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good

words and comfortable words.

3 And behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him,

4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:

her.

14 So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, b 5 For I, saith the LORD, will be saying, Thus saith the LORD of unto her a wall of fire round about, hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and will be the glory in the midst of and for Zion with a great jealousy. w 15 And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction. b 16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon Jerusalem.

b 17 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread

6 ¶ Ho, ho, come forth, and flee 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. g 7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.

t 8 For thus saith the LORD of hosts: After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you, toucheth the apple of his eye.