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not be cut off from the face of the land (joice, O daughter of Sion; cry aloud, for all the vengeance I have brought O daughter of Jerusalem; Gr. proupon her: prepare thou, rise early: all rejoice and delight thyself preach. their produce is spoilt. Therefore with all thine heart, O daughter of wait upon me, says the Lord, until the Jerusalem. 15 The Lord has taken day when I rise up for a witness: away thine iniquities, he has ransomed because my judgment shall be on the thee from the hand of thine enemies: gatherings of the nations, to draw to the Lord, the King of Israel, is in the me kings, to pour out upon them all midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil fierce anger: for the whole earth any more. 16 At that time the Lord shall be consumed with the fire of my shall say to Jerusalem, Be of good jealousy. For then will I turn to the courage, Sion; let not thine hands be read as peoples a tongue for her slack. 17 The Lord thy God is in generation, that all may thee; the Mighty One shall save thee: call on the name of the Lord, to he shall bring joy upon thee, and shall serve him under one yoke. 10 From refresh thee with his love; Lit. renew. the boundaries of the rivers of Ethi- and he shall rejoice over thee with opia will I receive my dispersed ones; delight as in a day of feasting. 18 And they shall offer sacrifices to me. In I will gather thine afflicted ones. that day thou shalt not be ashamed 18 Alas! who has taken up a reproach of all thy practices, wherein thou hast against her? 19 Behold, I will work transgressed against me: for then will in thee for thy sake at that time, says I take away from thee thy disdainful the Lord: and I will save her that was pride, and thou shalt no more magnify oppressed, and receive her that was thyself upon my holy mountain. 12And rejected; and I will make them a I will leave in thee a meek and lowly people; 13 and the remnant of Israel shall fear the name of the Lord, and shall do no iniquity, neither shall they speak vanity; neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth: for they shall feed, and lie down, and there shall be none to terrify them. 14 Re

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praise, and honoured in all the earth. 20And their enemies shall be ashamed at that time, when I shall deal well with you, and at the time when I shall receive you: for I will make you honoured and a praise among all the nations of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before you, says the Lord.

AG GEUS.

CHAPTER I. II. VERSES 1-4.

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1. IN the second year of Darius | a sword upon the land, and upon the +q. d. ἐπὶ the king, in the sixth mountains, and upon the λεύοντος. month, on the first day of upon the wine, and upon the oil, and the month, the word of the Lord came all that the earth produces, and upon by the hand of the prophet Aggæus, the men, and upon the cattle, and upon saying, Speak to Zorobabel the son of all the labours of their hands. 12 And Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the + Or, Joshua. * Jesus the son of Josedec, tribe of Juda, and Jesus +Or, Joshua. the high priest, saying, Thus speaks the son of Josedec, the high priest, the Lord Almighty, saying, This peo- and all the remnant of the people, ple say, The time is not come to build hearkened to the voice of the Lord the house of the Lord. 3 And the their God, and the words of the proword of the Lord came by the hand phet Aggæus, according as the Lord of the prophet Aggæus, saying, 'Is it their God had sent him to them, and time for you to dwell in your ceiled the people feared before the Lord. houses, whereas our house is desolate? 13 And Aggæus the Lord's messenger 5 And now thus says the Lord Al- spoke among the messengers of the mighty; Consider your ways, I pray Lord to the people, saying, I am with you. Ye have sown much, but you, says the Lord. 14And the Lord brought in little; ye have eaten, and stirred up the spirit of Zorobabel the are not satisfied; ye have drunk, and son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, are not satisfied with drink, ye have and the spirit of Jesus the son of Joseclothed yourselves, and have not be- dec, the high priest, and the spirit of come warm thereby and the remnant of all the people; and them. he that earns wages has they went in, and wrought in the gathered them into a bag full of holes. house of the Lord Almighty their God, Thus says the Lord Almighty; Con- on the four and twentieth day of the sider your ways. Go up to the moun- sixth month, in the second year of tain, and cut timber; build the house, Darius the king. and I will take pleasure in it, and be glorified, says the Lord. 9 Ye looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty, Because my house is desolate, and ye run every one into his own house; 10 therefore shall the sky withhold dew, and the earth shall keep back her produce. "And I will bring

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2. In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the Lord spoke by Aggæus the prophet, saying, Speak now to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, saying, Who is there of you that saw this house in her former

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glory? and how do ye now look upon approach them, shall be defiled* [beGr. not ex- it, as it were 'nothing before cause of their early bur- +Not in Hebrew. your eyes? Yet now be dens: they shall be pained because strong, O Zorobabel, says the Lord; of their toils; and ye have hated and strengthen thyself, O Jesus the him that reproved in the gates.] high priest, the son of Josedec; and 16 And now consider, I pray you, let all the people of the land strengthen from this day and beforetime, bethemselves, says the Lord, and work, fore they laid a stone on a for I am with you, says the Lord Al- in the temple of the Lord, what manmighty; and my Spirit remains in the ner of men ye were. 17 When ye cast midst of you; be of good courage. into the corn-bin twenty measures of For thus says the Lord Almighty; barley, and there were only ten meaHeb. 12. 26. Yet once I will shake the sures of barley: and ye went to the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, vat to draw out fifty mea- + Gr. into. and the dry land; and I will shake sures, and there were but twenty. all nations, and the choice portions of smote you with barrenness, and with + Or, objects. all the nations shall come: blasting, and all the works of your and I will fill this house with glory, hands with hail; yet ye returned not says the Lord Almighty. 9 Mine is to me, says the Lord. Set your the silver, and mine the gold, says the hearts now to think from this day and Lord Almighty. 10 For the glory of upward, from the four and twentieth this house shall be great, the latter day of the ninth month, even from the more than the former, says the Lord day when the foundation of the temple Almighty: and in this place will I give of the Lord was laid; 20 consider in peace, says the Lord Almighty, even +Or, salvation. peace of soul for a possession to every one that builds, to raise up this temple. On the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Aggæus the prophet, saying, 12 Thus says the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priests concerning the law, saying, 13 If a man should take holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and the skirt of his garment should touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it Gr. sancti be 'holy? And the priests answered and said, No. 14 And Aggæus said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled. 15 And Aggæus answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, says the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall

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your hearts, whether this shall be known on the corn-floor, and whether yet the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-trees that bear no fruit are with you: from this day will I bless you. And the word of the Lord came the second time to Aggæus the prophet, on the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

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Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, saying, I shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; 23 and I will overthrow the thrones of kings, and I will destroy the power of the kings of the nations; and I will overthrow chariots and riders; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword striving against his brother. 24 In that day, says the Lord Almighty, I will take thee, O Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, my servant, says the Lord, and will make thee as a seal: for I have chosen thee, says the Lord Almighty.

ZACHARIAS.

CHAPTER I. VERSES 1-18.

me said to me, I will show thee what these things are. 10 And the man that stood between the mountains answered, and said to me, These are they whom the Lord has sent forth to go round the earth. "And they answered the angel of the Lord that stood between the mountains, and said, We have gone round all the earth, and, behold,

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1. IN the eighth month, in the second of the reign of Darius, the year word of the Lord came to Zacharias, the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying, 2 The Lord has been very angry with your fathers. 3 And thou shalt say to them, Thus says the Lord Almighty; Turn to me, says the Lord of hosts, and I will turn to you, says the Lord of hosts. And all the earth is inhabited, and is at be ye not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty; Turn ye from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they hearkened not, and attended not to hearken to me, says the Lord. 5 Where are your fathers, and the prophets? Will they live for ever? But do ye receive my words and mine ordinances, all that I command by my Spirit to my servants the prophets, who lived in the days of your fathers; and they answered and said, As the Lord Almighty determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so has he done to us. 7 On the twenty-fourth day in the eleventh month, this is the month Sabat, in the second year of the reign of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Zacharias, the son of Barachias, the son of Addo, the prophet, saying, I saw by night, and behold a man mounted on a red horse, and he stood between the shady mountains; and behind him were red horses, and grey, and piebald, and white. And I said, What are these, my lord? And the angel that spoke with

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answered and said, O Lord Almighty,
how long wilt thou have no mercy
on Jerusalem, and the cities of Juda,
which thou hast disregarded these
seventy years? 13 And the Gr. this
Lord Almighty answered the year.
angel that spoke with me good words
and consolatory sayings. And the
angel that spoke to me said to me,
Cry out and say, Thus says the Lord
Almighty; I have been jealous for
Jerusalem and Zion with great jealousy.
15 And I am very angry with the heathen
that combine to attack her: forasmuch
as I indeed was a little angry, but they
combined to attack her for evil.
16 Therefore thus says the Lord; I will
return to Jerusalem with compassion;
and my house shall be rebuilt in her,
says the Lord Almighty, and a mea-
suring line shall yet be stretched out
over Jerusalem. And the angel that
spoke with me said to me, Cry yet,
and say, Thus says the Lord Almighty;
Yet shall cities be spread abroad through
prosperity; and the Lord shall yet
have mercy upon Sion, and shall choose
Jerusalem. 18 And I lifted up mine

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eyes and looked, and behold four horns. | Lord. "And many nations shall flee 19 And I said to the angel that spoke for refuge to the Lord in that day, with me, What are these things, my lord? And he said to me, These are the horns that have scattered Juda, and Israel, and Jerusalem. 20 And the Lord showed me four artificers. 21 And I said, What are these coming to do? And he said, These are the horns that scattered Juda, and they broke Israel in pieces, and none of them lifted up his head: and these are come forth to sharpen them for their hands, even the four horns, the nations that lifted up the horn against the land of the Lord to scatter it.