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Haggai 2 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:1 - In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the Lord spoke by Aggæus the prophet, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:2 - Speak now to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, of the tribe of Juda, and to [fn]Jesus the son of Josedec, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:3 - Who is there of you that saw this house in her former glory? and how do ye now look upon it, as it were [fn]nothing before your eyes?
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:4 - Yet now be strong, O Zorobabel, saith the Lord; and strengthen thyself, O Jesus the high priest, the son of Josedec; and let all the people of the land strengthen themselves, saith the Lord, and work, for I am with you, saith the Lord Almighty;
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:5 - and my Spirit remains in the midst of you; be of good courage.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:6 - For thus saith the Lord Almighty; [fn] Yet once I will shake the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:7 - and I will shake all nations, and the choice [fn]portions of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:8 - Mine is the silver, and mine the gold, saith the Lord Almighty.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:9 - For the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, saith the Lord Almighty: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for [fn]a possession to every one that builds, to raise up this temple.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:10 - 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:11 - Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priests concerning the law, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:12 - 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 be [fn]holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:13 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:14 - And Aggæus answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall approach them, shall be defiled [[fn]because of their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and ye have hated him that reproved in the gates].
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:15 - And now consider, I pray you, from this day and beforetime, before they laid a stone on a stone in the temple of the Lord, what manner of men ye were.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:16 - When ye cast into the corn-bin twenty measures of barley, and there were only ten measures of barley: and ye went [fn]to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were but twenty.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:17 - I smote you with barrenness, and with blasting, and all the works of your hands with hail; yet ye returned not to me, saith the Lord.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:18 - Set your hearts now to think from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day when the foundation of the temple of the Lord was laid;
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:19 - consider in 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:20 - And the word of the Lord came the second time to Aggæus the prophet, on the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:21 - 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;
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:22 - 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 2:23 - In that day, saith the Lord Almighty, I will take thee, O Zorobabel, the son of Salathiel, my servant, saith the Lord, and will make thee as a seal: for I have chosen thee, saith the Lord Almighty.
BES Footnotes
Or, Joshua.
Gr. not existing.
Heb. 12:26.
Or, objects.
Or, salvation.
Gr. sanctified.
Not in Hebrew.
Gr. into.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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