Aggeus 2

¹In the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king.

²In the seventh month, the one & twentieth of the month, the word of our Lord was made in the hand of Aggeus the Prophet, saying:

³Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel the Duke of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec the grand Priest, and to the rest of the people, saying:

⁴Who among you is left, that saw this house in the first glory thereof? And what do you see this same now? Why, is it not so, as if it were not in your eyes?

⁵And now take courage Zorobabel, saith our Lord, and take courage Jesus the son of Josedec grand Priest, and take courage all ye people of the land, saith the Lord of hosts: & do (because I am with you, saith the Lord of hosts)

⁶the word that I did covenant with you when you came out of the Land of Ægypt: & my spirit shall be in the midst of you: fear not.

⁷Because thus saith the Lord of hosts: As yet there is one little while, and I will move the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land.

⁸And I will move all nations: And The Desired of All Nations Shall Come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord of hosts.

⁹Mine is the silver, & mine is the gold, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹⁰Great shall be the glory of this last house, more than of the first, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.

¹¹In the four and twentieth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius the king, the word of our Lord was made to Aggeus the Prophet, saying:

¹²Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the Priests the law, saying:

¹³If a man take sanctified flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touch with the skirt thereof bread, or broth, or wine, or oil, or any meat: shall it be sanctified? And the Priests answering, said: No.

¹⁴And Aggeus said: If one polluted on a soul touch any of all these, shall he be contaminated? And the Priests answered, and said: He shall be contaminated.

¹⁵And Aggeus answered, and said: So this people, and so this nation before my face, saith our Lord, and so all the work of their hands: & all that they have offered there, shall be contaminated.

¹⁶And now set your hearts, from this day & upward, before there was stone laid upon stone in the temple of our Lord.

¹⁷When you went to an heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten: and entered into the press, to press out fifty flagons, & they became twenty.

¹⁸I struck you with the burning wind, and with the blast, and with hail, all the works of your hands: and there was none among you, that returned to me, saith our Lord.

¹⁹Set your hearts from this day, & henceforward, from the four & twentieth day of the ninth month: from the day that the foundations of the temple of our Lord were laid, lay it upon your hearts.

²⁰Is there the seed now abreward? And as yet the wine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree hath not flourished? From this day I will bless.

²¹And the word of our Lord was made the second time to Aggeus in the four and twentieth of the month, saying:

²²Speak to Zorobabel the Duke of Juda, saying: I will move the heaven and also the earth.

²³And I will overthrow the throne of Kingdoms, and will destroy the strength of the Kingdom of the Gentiles: and I will overthrow the chariot, and the rider thereof: and the horses shall come down, and the riders of them, every one by the sword of his brother.

²⁴In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will take thee o Zorobabel son of Salathiel my servant, saith our Lord, and will put thee as a signet, because thee have I chosen, saith the Lord of hosts.