CHAPTER I An exhortation to repentance. him. Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice: he hath bid his ghests. And it shall come to passe in the day of the LORDS Sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the kings children, and al such as are clothed with strange apparell. In the same day also wil I punish all those that leape on the threshold, which fill their masters houses with violence and deceit. And it shall come to passe in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hils. Howle yee inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people are cut downe: all they that beare silver are cut off. And it shall come to passe at that time, that I wil search Ierusalem with candles, and punish the men that are setled on their lees, that say in their heart, The LORD will not doe good, neither will he doe evill. Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabite them, and they shall plant Vineyards, but not drinke the wine thereof. The great day of the LORD is neere, it is neere, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distresse, a day of wastenesse and desolation, a day of darknesse and gloominesse, a day of cloudes and thicke darkenesse; a day of the trumpet and alarme against the fenced cities, and against the high towres. And I will bring distresse upon men, that they shall walke like blinde men, because they have sinned against the LORD, and their blood shall bee powred out as dust, and their flesh as the doung. Neither their silver nor their golde shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORDS wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his iealousie: for hee shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land. G CHAPTER II |ATHER your selves together, yea gather together, O nation not desired. Before the decree bring foorth, before the day passe as the chaffe, before the fierce anger of the LORD come upon you, before the day of the LORDS anger come upon you. Seeke ye the LORD all ye meeke of the earth, which have wrought his iudgement, seeke righteousnesse, seeke meeknesse : it may be, ye shall be hid in the day of the LORDS anger. For Gaza shall bee forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they shall drive out Ashdod at the noone day, and Ekron shall be rooted tines, up. Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast: the nation of CHAPTER the Cherethites, the word of the LORD is against you: O Canaan, II the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there The iudgement shal be no inhabitant. And the sea coast shall be dwellings and of the Philiscottages for shepheards, and foldes for flockes. And the coast shall bee for the remnant of the house of Iudah, they shall feede thereupon, in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie downe in the evening for the LORD their God shall visite them, and turne away their captivitie. I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the chil- Of Moab dren of Ammon, whereby they have reproched my people, and mag- and Ammon, nified themselves against their border. Therefore, as I live, saith the LORD of hostes the God of Israel, surely Moab shalbe as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of netles, and salt pits, and a perpetuall desolation, the residue of my people shall spoile them, and the remnant of my people shall possesse them. This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproched and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hostes. The LORD will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the Iles of the heathen. Ye Ethiopians also, ye shalbe slaine by my sword. And he wil Of Ethiopia stretch out his hand against the North, and destroy Assyria, and and Assyria. wil make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a wildernes. And flocks shall lie downe in the midst of her, all the beasts of the nations: both the Cormorant, and the Bitterne, shall lodge in the upper lintels of it: their voice shal sing in the windowes, desolation shall be in the thresholds: for he shall uncover the Cedar worke. This is the reioycing citie that dwelt carelessely, that said in her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is shee become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie downe in! every one that passeth by her, shall hisse and wagge his hand. CHAPTER III Ierusalem for OE to her that is filthie and polluted, to the oppressing A sharpe citie. She obeyed not the voice: she received not cor- reproofe of rection she trusted not in the LORD: she drew not divers sinnes. neere to her God. Her princes within her are roaring lyons; her Iudges are evening wolves, they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the Sanctuarie, they have done violence to the Law. The iust LORD is in the middest thereof: he will not doe iniquitie: 4: UU 337 CHAPTER An exhortation restauration of Israel: every morning doeth hee bring his iudgement to light, he faileth not: but the uniust knoweth no shame. I have cut off the nations: their towres are desolate, I made their streetes waste, that none passeth by their cities are destroied, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant. I said, Surely thou wilt feare mee: thou wilt receive instruction: so their dwelling should not bee cut off, howsoever I punished them: but they rose early, and corrupted all their doings. Therefore waite ye upon mee, sayth the LORD, untill the day to wait for the that I rise up to the pray for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdomes to powre upon them mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth shalbe devoured with the fire of my iealousie. For then will I turne to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the Name of the LORD, to serve him with one consent. From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed shal bring mine offring. 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 reioyce in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of mine holy mountaine. I will also leave in the middest of thee an afflicted and poore people: and they shall trust in the Name of the LORD. The remnant of Israel shall not doe iniquitie, nor speake lies: neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feede, and lie downe, and none shall make them afraid. and to reioyce for their salvation by God. Sing, O daughter of Zion: shout, O Israel: be glad and reioyce with all the heart, O daughter of Ierusalem. The LORD hath taken away thy iudgements, he hath cast out thine enemy: the King of Israel, even the LORD is in the middest of thee: thou shalt not see evill any more. In that day it shall be said to Ierusalem, Feare thou not: and to Zion, Let not thine hands be slacke. The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mightie: hee will save, he will reioyce over thee with ioy: hee will rest in his love, hee will ioy over thee with singing. I will gather them that are sorrowfull for the solemne assembly, who are of thee, to whom the reproch of it was a burden. Behold, at that time I will undoe all that afflict thee, and I will save her that halteth, and gather her that was driven out, and I will get them praise and fame in every land, where they have beene put to shame. At that time will I bring you againe even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turne backe your captivitie before your eyes, saith the LORD. HAGGAI CHAPTER I N the second yeere of Darius the king, in the Haggai resixt moneth, in the first day of the moneth came proveth the the worde of the LORD by Haggai the Prophet neglecting people for unto Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, gover- the building nour of Iudah, and to Iosuah the sonne of Iose- of the house. dech the high priest, saying; Thus speaketh the LORD of hostes, saying; This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORDS house should be built. Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying; Is it time for you, O yee, to dwell in your sieled houses, and this house lie waste? Nowe therefore thus saith the LORD of hostes; Consider your wayes. Yee have sowen much and bring in litle: ye eate, but ye have not inough: yee drinke, but yee are not filled with drinke: yee cloth you, but there is none warme : and hee that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. Thus saith the LORD of hostes, Consider your wayes. Goe up Hee inciteth to the mountaine, and bring wood, and build the house; and I them to the building. will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD. Ye looked for much, and loe it came to litle: and when yee brought it home, I did blow upon it: Why, saith the LORD of hostes? because of mine house that is waste, and yee runne every man unto his owne house. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is staied from her fruite. And I called for a drought upon the land and upon the mountaines, and upon the corne, and upon the new wine, and upon the oyle, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattell, and upon all the labour of the hands. Then Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, and Iosuah the sonne He promiseth Gods assistance of Iosedech the high priest, with all the remnant of the people to them being obeyed the voyce of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai forward. the Prophet (as the LORD their God had sent him) and the people did feare before the LORD. Then spake Haggai the LORDS mes CHAPTER I He incourageth Temple, then was in the first. senger in the LORDS message unto the people, saying; I am with you, saith the LORD. And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel governour of Iudah, and the spirit of Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, and they came and did worke in the house of the LORD of hostes their God: in the foure and twentieth day of the sixt moneth, in the second yeere of Darius the King. CHAPTER II N the seventh moneth, in the one and twentith day of the moneth, came the word of the LORD by the Prophet Haggai, saying; Speake now to Zerubbabel the sonne of Shealtiel, governour of Iudah, and to Iosuah the sonne of Iosedech the high priest, and to the residue of the people, saying, Who is left among you that sawe 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 bee strong, O Ioshua, sonne of Iosedech the high Priest, and be strong all ye people of the land, saith the LORD, and worke: (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, Feare ye not. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, Yet once, it is a litle while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the drie land. And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts. The glory of this latter house shal be greater then of the former, saith the LORD of hostes and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hostes. In the type, of In the foure and twentieth day of the ninth moneth, in the holy things and second yeere of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the uncleane, hee sheweth their Prophet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Aske now the sinnes hindred priests concerning the law, saying, If one beare holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt doe touch bread or pottage, or wine, or oile, or any meate, shall it be holy? and the priests answered and said, No. Then said Haggai, If one that is uncleane by a dead body, touch any of these, shal it be uncleane? and the priests answered and said, It shalbe uncleane. Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD, and so is every worke of their hands, and that which they offer there, is uncleane. And now I pray you consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a the worke. |