Luther Bible 1545 (English)
eyes, saith the LORD.
Text of the unrevised Luther Bible 1545:
DeepL English Translation
[Processed by BackToLuther. German text published here.]
The prophet Haggai ^
Chapter 1
Sermon against the negligence in the promotion of the temple building: 1. 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, prince of
Judah, and unto Joshua the son of Jehozadak, high priest, saying: 2. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; This people saith, The time is not yet come to build the house of the LORD.
And the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai:
But your days are come, that ye should dwell in houses of wood, and this house should stand desolate?
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; See how ye fare.
Ye sow much, and bring in little; ye eat, and are not satisfied; ye drink, and are not drunken; ye clothe yourselves, and cannot warm yourselves; and he that earneth money putteth it into a bag full of holes.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; See how ye fare.
Go up into the mountains, and cut wood, and build the house: it shall be acceptable unto me, and I will shew mine honour, saith the LORD.
For ye wait for much, and, behold, it is little: and though ye bring it home, yet will I destroy it.
Wherefore saith the LORD of hosts? Because my house is desolate, and every man hasteth to his own house.
Therefore the heaven hath restrained the dew upon you, and the earth her increase.
And I have called for drought, both upon land, and upon mountains, and upon corn, and upon wine, and upon oil, and upon all that cometh out of the earth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the work of the hands.
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and 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 feared the LORD.
Then said Haggai the angel of the LORD, which had the message of the LORD unto the people, I am with you, saith the LORD.
And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people, that they should come and work in the house of the LORD of hosts their God.
(Haggai)
Chapter 2
Prophecy of the glory of the other temple because of the future of the Messiah.
On the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king, 2. On the twenty-first day of the seventh month came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying:
Speak unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, the prince of Judah, and unto Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and unto the remnant of the people, saying: 4. Who is left among you that hath seen this house in the former glory? And how look ye now upon it? Is it not so, that ye think it to be nothing?
And now, Zerubbabel, be of good cheer, saith the LORD; be of good cheer, Joshua, thou son of Jehozadak, thou high priest; be of good cheer, all the people of the land, saith the LORD, and work. For I am with you, saith the LORD of hosts.
According to the word that I made a covenant with you, when ye came out of Egypt, my spirit shall dwell among you. Fear not!
For thus saith the LORD of hosts; There is yet a little while, that I will move heaven and earth, and the sea and the dry land.
8.Yea, I will move all nations. Then shall come the consolation of all the nations. And I will make this house full of glory, saith the LORD of hosts.
For mine is both silver and gold, saith the LORD of hosts.
The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and I will give peace in this place, saith the LORD of hosts.
And it came to pass on the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the year of Darius, that the word of the LORD came unto Haggai the prophet, saying:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask the priests of the law, and say:
If a man bear holy flesh in the sheath of his garment, and afterward touch with his sheath bread, or vegetables, or wine, or oil, or any manner of meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said: No.
And Haggai said, If a man that is unclean touch any of the touched of these, shall it also be unclean? And the priests answered and said: It shall be unclean.
And Haggai answered and said, So are this people, and so are these men before me, saith the LORD; and all the work of their dogs, and that which they offer, is unclean.
And now behold how it hath been unto you from this day forward, and before that stone was laid upon stone in the temple of the LORD:
That when a man came to the heap of corn, which should have had twenty measures, there were scarce ten: and when he came to the winepress, and thought to draw fifty pails, there were scarcely twenty.
For I have afflicted you with drought, and with burning corn, and with hail, in all your labour: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
Watch ye therefore from this day and before, even from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month even unto the day that the temple of the LORD is founded, watch ye.
For the seed is yet in the barn, and beareth not yet any thing, neither vines, nor fig trees, nor pomegranates, nor olive trees: but from this day I will give blessing.
And the word of the LORD came again unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying:
Speak unto Zerubbabel the prince of Judah, saying, I will move heaven and earth.
And I will turn back the stalls of the kingdoms, and destroy the mighty kingdoms of the heathen, and will turn back both chariots with their riders; and both horse and man shall fall down, every man by his sword.
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, thou son of Shealtiel, my servant, saith the LORD; and I will keep thee as a signet ring: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.
Text of the unrevised Luther Bible 1545:
DeepL English Translation
[Processed by BackToLuther. German text published here.]
The Prophet Zechariah (Zechariah) ^
Chapter 1
Exhortation to repentance and godliness, confirmed with two faces.
In the eighth month of the second year of Darius the king, came this word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah the son of Iddo the prophet, saying: 2. The LORD was wroth with your fathers.
And say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye unto me, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the LORD of hosts.
Be not ye as your fathers, to whom the former prophets preached, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Turn ye from your wicked ways, and from your evil doings. But they hearkened not, neither hearkened unto me, saith the LORD.
Where then are your fathers, and the prophets? Are they still alive?
Is it not so, that my words and my judgments, which I commanded by my servants the prophets, came upon your fathers, that they turned and said, As the LORD of hosts purposed to do unto us, after that we went and did, so hath he done unto us?
In the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the moon of Zebath, in the second year of Darius the king, came the word of the LORD unto Zechariah the son of Berechiah the son of Iddo the prophet, saying:
I looked by night, and, behold, a man sat upon a red horse, and he stopped among the myrtles
in the meadow; and behind him were red horses, and brown horses, and white horses.
And I said, My lord, who are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee who these are.
And the man that kept among the myrtles answered and said, These are they whom the LORD hath sent to pass through the land.
And they answered the angel of the LORD that kept among the myrtles, and said: We have passed through the land; and, behold, all the countries sit still.
And the angel of the LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem, and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast been wroth these seventy years?
And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with words of kindness and comfort.
And the angel that talked with me said unto me, Preach, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, I have been very jealous over Jerusalem and over Zion;
But I am very wroth with the proud Gentiles: for I was but a little wroth, but they help to destruction.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; I will return unto Jerusalem with mercy, and my house shall be built therein, saith the LORD of hosts; and the cord shall be drawn in Jerusalem.
And preach again, saying, Thus saith the LORD