The Prophecy of Aggeus, Chapter 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:
2   Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith:
    The time is not yet come for building the house of the
    Lord.
3   And the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the
    prophet, saying:
4   Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this
    house lie desolate?
5   And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to
    consider your ways.
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.
7   Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set Your hearts upon your
    ways:
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.
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.
10  Therefore the heavens over you were stayed from giving
    dew, and the earth was hindered from yielding her fruits:
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.
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.
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.
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.


              The Prophecy of Aggeus, Chapter 2

1   In the four and twentieth day of the month, in the sixth
    month, in the second year of Darius the king, they began.
2   And in the seventh month, the word of the Lord came by the
    hand of Aggeus the prophet, saying:
3   Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel the governor of
    Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and
    to the rest of the people, saying:
4   Who is left among you, that saw this house in its first
    glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in comparison
    to that as nothing in your eyes?
5   Yet now take courage, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord, and
    take courage, O Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest,
    and take courage, all ye people of the land, saith the
    Lord of hosts: and perform (for I am with you, saith the
    Lord of hosts)
6   The word that I covenanted with you when you came out of
    the land of Egypt: and my spirit shall be in the midst of
    you: fear not.
7   For thus saith the Lord of hosts: Yet one little while,
    and I will move the heaven and the earth, and the sea, and
    the dry land.
8   And 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.
9   The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord
    of hosts.
10  Great shall be the glory of this last house more than of
    the first, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place I
    will give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.
11  In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the
    second year of Darius the king, the word of the Lord came
    to Aggeus the prophet, saying:
12  Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests the law,
    saying:
13  If a man carry sanctified flesh in the skirt of his
    garment, and touch with his skirt, bread, or pottage, or
    wine, or oil, or any meat: shall it be sanctified? And the
    priests answered, and said: No.
14  And Aggeus said: If one that is unclean by occasion of a
    soul touch any of all these things, shall it be defiled?
    And the priests answered, and said: It shall be defiled.
15  And Aggeus answered, and said: So is this people, and so
    is this nation before my face, saith the Lord, and so is
    all the work of their hands: and all that they have
    offered there, shall be defiled.
16  And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward,
    before there was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple
    of the Lord.
17  When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became
    ten: and you went into the press, to press out fifty
    vessels, and they became twenty.
18  I struck you with a blasting wind, and all the works of
    your hand with the mildew and with hail, yet there was
    none among you that returned to me, saith the Lord.
19  Set your hearts from this day, and henceforward, from the
    four and twentieth day of the ninth month: from the day
    that the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid,
    and lay it up in your hearts.
20  Is the seed as yet sprung up? or hath the vine, and the
    fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree as yet
    flourished? from this day I will bless you.
21  And the word of the Lord came a second time to Aggeus in
    the four and twentieth day of the month, saying:
22  Speak to Zorobabel the governor of Juda, saying: I will
    move both heaven and earth.
23  And 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 him that rideth therein:
    and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one
    by the sword of his brother.
24  In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, I will take thee, O
    Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, my servant, saith the
    Lord, and will make thee as a signet, for I have chosen
    thee, saith the Lord of hosts.