Book 34 – Nahum
34:001:001 The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the
Elkoshite.
34:001:002 God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth,
and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his
adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.
34:001:003 The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at
all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind
and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
34:001:004 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the
rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of
Lebanon languisheth.
34:001:005 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth
is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell
therein.
34:001:006 Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the
fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and
the rocks are thrown down by him.
34:001:007 The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he
knoweth them that trust in him.
34:001:008 But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the
place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.
34:001:009 What do ye imagine against the LORD? he will make an utter
end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.
34:001:010 For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they
are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble
fully dry.
34:001:011 There is one come out of thee, that imagineth evil against the
LORD, a wicked counsellor.
34:001:012 Thus saith the LORD; Though they be quiet, and likewise many,
yet thus shall they be cut down, when he shall pass through.
Though I have afflicted thee, I will afflict thee no more.
34:001:013 For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst
thy bonds in sunder.
34:001:014 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no
more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I
cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy
grave; for thou art vile.
34:001:015 Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good
tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn
feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass
through thee; he is utterly cut off.
34:002:001 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the
munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy
power mightily.
34:002:002 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the
excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out,
and marred their vine branches.
34:002:003 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are
in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the
day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly
shaken.
34:002:004 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one
against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like
torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
34:002:005 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their
walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the
defence shall be prepared.
34:002:006 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall
be dissolved.
34:002:007 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up,
and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves,
tabering upon their breasts.
34:002:008 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall
flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look
back.
34:002:009 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there
is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant
furniture.
34:002:010 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and
the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and
the faces of them all gather blackness.
34:002:011 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of
the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked,
and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
34:002:012 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and
strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey,
and his dens with ravin.
34:002:013 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will
burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy
young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and
the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
34:003:001 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery;
the prey departeth not;
34:003:002 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the
wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping
chariots.
34:003:003 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the
glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a
great number of carcases; and there is none end of their
corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
34:003:004 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured
harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations
through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
34:003:005 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will
discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations
thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
34:003:006 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee
vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
34:003:007 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee
shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will
bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
34:003:008 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the
rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was
the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
34:003:009 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put
and Lubim were thy helpers.
34:003:010 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young
children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the
streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all
her great men were bound in chains.
34:003:011 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt
seek strength because of the enemy.
34:003:012 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the
firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into
the mouth of the eater.
34:003:013 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates
of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the
fire shall devour thy bars.
34:003:014 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go
into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
34:003:015 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee
off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself
many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
34:003:016 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven:
the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
34:003:017 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great
grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but
when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not
known where they are.
34:003:018 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall
dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains,
and no man gathereth them.
34:003:019 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all
that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee:
for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
Book 35 – Habakkuk
35:001:001 The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.
35:001:002 O LORD, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry
out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save!
35:001:003 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold
grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there
are that raise up strife and contention.
35:001:004 Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go
forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous;
therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
35:001:005 Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder
marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will
not believe, though it be told you.
35:001:006 For, lo, I raise up the Chaldeans, that bitter and hasty
nation, which shall march through the breadth of the land, to
possess the dwellingplaces that are not their's.
35:001:007 They are terrible and dreadful: their judgment and their
dignity shall proceed of themselves.
35:001:008 Their horses also are swifter than the leopards, and are more
fierce than the evening wolves: and their horsemen shall
spread themselves, and their horsemen shall come from far;
they shall fly as the eagle that hasteth to eat.
35:001:009 They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as
the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the
sand.
35:001:010 And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a
scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they
shall heap dust, and take it.
35:001:011 Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and
offend, imputing this his power unto his god.
35:001:012 Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One?
we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for
judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for
correction.
35:001:013 Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look
on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal
treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked
devoureth the man that is more righteous than he?
35:001:014 And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping
things, that have no ruler over them?
35:001:015 They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in
their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they
rejoice and are glad.
35:001:016 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto
their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their
meat plenteous.
35:001:017 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare
continually to slay the nations?
35:002:001 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and
will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall
answer when I am reproved.
35:002:002 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make
it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.
35:002:003 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it
shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it;
because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
35:002:004 Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but
the just shall live by his faith.
35:002:005 Yea also, because he transgresseth by wine, he is a proud man,
neither keepeth at home, who enlargeth his desire as hell, and
is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathereth unto him
all nations, and heapeth unto him all people:
35:002:006 Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a
taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that
increaseth that which is not his! how long? and to him that
ladeth himself with thick clay!
35:002:007 Shall they not rise up suddenly that shall bite thee, and
awake that shall vex thee, and thou shalt be for booties unto
them?
35:002:008 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, all the remnant of the
people shall spoil thee; because of men's blood, and for the
violence of the land, of the city, and of all that dwell
therein.
35:002:009 Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house,
that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered
from the power of evil!
35:002:010 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many
people, and hast sinned against thy soul.
35:002:011 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of
the timber shall answer it.
35:002:012 Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a
city by iniquity!
35:002:013 Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall
labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves
for very vanity?
35:002:014 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory
of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
35:002:015 Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy
bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest
look on their nakedness!
35:002:016 Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let
thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD's right hand
shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on
thy glory.
35:002:017 For the violence of Lebanon shall cover thee, and the spoil of
beasts, which made them afraid, because of men's blood, and
for the violence of the land, of the city, and of all that
dwell therein.
35:002:018 What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath
graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the
maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
35:002:019 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone,
Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and
silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
35:002:020 But the LORD is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep
silence before him.
35:003:001 A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.
35:003:002 O LORD, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O LORD,
revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the
years make known; in wrath remember mercy.
35:003:003 God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah.
His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his
praise.
35:003:004 And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out
of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power.
35:003:005 Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth
at his feet.
35:003:006 He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder
the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the
perpetual hills did bow: his ways are everlasting.
35:003:007 I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of
the land of Midian did tremble.
35:003:008 Was the LORD displeased against the rivers? was thine anger
against the rivers? was thy wrath against the sea, that thou
didst ride upon thine horses and thy chariots of salvation?
35:003:009 Thy bow was made quite naked, according to the oaths of the
tribes, even thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with
rivers.
35:003:010 The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of
the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up
his hands on high.
35:003:011 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light
of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy
glittering spear.
35:003:012 Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst
thresh the heathen in anger.
35:003:013 Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for
salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of
the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto
the neck. Selah.
35:003:014 Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his
villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their
rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.
35:003:015 Thou didst walk through the sea with thine horses, through the
heap of great waters.
35:003:016 When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the
voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in
myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he
cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his
troops.
35:003:017 Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit
be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the
fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from
the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
35:003:018 Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my
salvation.
35:003:019 The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like
hinds' feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high
places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
Book 36 – Zephaniah
36:001:001 The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of
Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of
Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
36:001:002 I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the
LORD.
36:001:003 I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the
heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks
with the wicked: and I will cut off man from off the land,
saith the LORD.
36:001:004 I will also stretch out mine hand upon Judah, and upon all the
inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off the remnant of
Baal from this place, and the name of the Chemarims with the
priests;
36:001:005 And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops;
and them that worship and that swear by the LORD, and that
swear by Malcham;
36:001:006 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that
have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
36:001:007 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 guests.
36:001:008 And it shall come to pass in the day of the LORD's sacrifice,
that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and
all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
36:001:009 In the same day also will I punish all those that leap on the
threshold, which fill their masters' houses with violence and
deceit.
36:001:010 And it shall come to pass 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 hills.
36:001:011 Howl, ye inhabitants of Maktesh, for all the merchant people
are cut down; all they that bear silver are cut off.
36:001:012 And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search
Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on
their lees: that say in their heart, The LORD will not do
good, neither will he do evil.
36:001:013 Therefore their goods shall become a booty, and their houses a
desolation: they shall also build houses, but not inhabit
them; and they shall plant vineyards, but not drink the wine
thereof.
36:001:014 The great day of the LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth
greatly, even the voice of the day of the LORD: the mighty man
shall cry there bitterly.
36:001:015 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a
day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and
gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,
36:001:016 A day of the trumpet and alarm against the fenced cities, and
against the high towers.
36:001:017 And I will bring distress upon men, that they shall walk like
blind men, because they have sinned against the LORD: and
their blood shall be poured out as dust, and their flesh as
the dung.
36:001:018 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.
36:002:001 Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not
desired;
36:002:002 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.
36:002:003 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 anger.
36:002:004 For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation: they
shall drive out Ashdod at the noon day, and Ekron shall be
rooted up.
36:002:005 Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the
Cherethites! 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 inhabitant.
36:002:006 And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for
shepherds, and folds for flocks.
36:002:007 And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah;
they shall 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.
36:002:008 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.
36:002:009 Therefore as I live, saith the LORD of hosts, the God of
Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of
Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits,
and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall
spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.
36:002:010 This shall they have for their pride, because they have
reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the
LORD of hosts.
36:002:011 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 isles of the heathen.
36:002:012 Ye Ethiopians also, ye shall be slain by my sword.
36:002:013 And he will stretch out his hand against the north, and
destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry
like a wilderness.
36:002:014 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts
of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge
in the upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the
windows; desolation shall be in the thresholds; for he shall
uncover the cedar work.
36:002:015 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in
her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she
become a desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every
one that passeth by her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
36:003:001 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing
city!
36:003:002 She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she
trusted not in the LORD; she drew not near to her God.
36:003:003 Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are
evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
36:003:004 Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests
have polluted the sanctuary, they have done violence to the
law.
36:003:005 The just LORD is in the midst thereof; he will not do
iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light,
he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.
36:003:006 I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made
their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are
destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none
inhabitant.
36:003:007 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.
36:003:008 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 I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour upon them
mine indignation, even all my fierce anger: for all the earth
shall be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
36:003:009 For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they
may all call upon the name of the LORD, to serve him with one
consent.
36:003:010 From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the
daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.
36:003:011 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
mountain.
36:003:012 I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor
people, and they shall trust in the name of the LORD.
36:003:013 The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies;
neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for
they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.
36:003:014 Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice
with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
36:003:015 The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine
enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of
thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.
36:003:016 In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and
to Zion, Let not thine hands be slack.
36:003:017 The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save,
he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love,
he will joy over thee with singing.
36:003:018 I will gather them that are sorrowful for the solemn assembly,
who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden.
36:003:019 Behold, at that time I will undo 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 been put to shame.
36:003:020 At that time will I bring you again, 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 turn back your captivity before
your eyes, saith the LORD.
Book 37 – Haggai
37:001:001 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in
the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by
Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high
priest, saying,
37:001:002 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The
time is not come, the time that the LORD's house should be
built.
37:001:003 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
37:001:004 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and
this house lie waste?
37:001:005 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your
ways.
37:001:006 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.
37:001:007 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
37:001:008 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.
37:001:009 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 mine house that is waste, and ye run every
man unto his own house.
37:001:010 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the
earth is stayed from her fruit.
37:001:011 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.
37:001:012 Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of
Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people,
obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of
Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and
the people did fear before the LORD.
37:001:013 Then spake Haggai the LORD's messenger in the LORD's message
unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith the LORD.
37:001:014 And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of
Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son
of Josedech, 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,
37:001:015 In the four and twentieth day of the sixth month, in the
second year of Darius the king.
37:002:001 In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the
month, came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai,
saying,
37:002:002 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,
37:002:003 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?
37:002:004 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:
37:002:005 According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came
out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
37:002:006 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;
37:002:007 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.
37:002:008 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of
hosts.
37:002:009 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.
37:002:010 In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the
second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the
prophet, saying,
37:002:011 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning
the law, saying,
37:002:012 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.
37:002:013 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.
37:002:014 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.
37:002:015 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from
before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the
LORD:
37:002:016 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty
measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat
for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but
twenty.
37:002:017 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all
the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the
LORD.
37:002:018 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.
37:002:019 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.
37:002:020 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four
and twentieth day of the month, saying,
37:002:021 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake
the heavens and the earth;
37:002:022 And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will
destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I
will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and
the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the
sword of his brother.
37:002:023 In that day, saith the LORD of 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.
