Hageo 1:13

13 Luego Hageo, el mensajero del Señor
, dio al pueblo el siguiente mensaje del Señor
: «¡Yo estoy con ustedes, dice el Señor
!».

Hageo 1:13 Meaning and Commentary

Haggai 1:13

Then spoke Haggai the Lord's messenger
Which some render "angel"; hence sprung that notion, imbibed by some, that he was not a man, but an angel; whereas this only respects his office, being sent of God as an ambassador in his name with a message to his people: he now observing what effect his prophecy had upon the people; they being convinced of their sin, and terrified with the judgments of God upon them, and fearing that worse still would attend them; in order to revive their spirits and comfort them, spake the words unto them which follow: and this he did in the Lord's message unto the people;
not of his own head, nor out of the pity of his own heart merely; but as a prophet of the Lord, having a fresh message from him to carry a promise to them for their comfort and encouragement: saying, I [am] with you, saith the Lord;
to pardon their sins; to accept their persons; to remove his rod from them; to assist them in the work of building the temple, they were now willing to engage in; to protect them from their enemies, and to strengthen them to go on with the work till they had finished it; a short promise, but a very full one: it was saying much in a little, and enough to remove all their fears, to scatter all their doubts, and to bear them up, and through all discouragements.

Hageo 1:13 In-Context

11 Yo mandé la sequía sobre sus campos y colinas; una sequía que destruirá el grano, el vino nuevo, el aceite de oliva y las demás cosechas; una sequía que hará que ustedes y sus animales pasen hambre y arruinará todo aquello por lo que tanto han trabajado».

12 Obediencia al llamado de Dios
Entonces Zorobabel, hijo de Salatiel, y Jesúa, hijo de Josadac, el sumo sacerdote, y todo el remanente del pueblo de Dios comenzaron a obedecer el mensaje del Señor
su Dios. Cuando oyeron las palabras del profeta Hageo, a quien el Señor
su Dios había enviado, el pueblo temió al Señor
.

13 Luego Hageo, el mensajero del Señor
, dio al pueblo el siguiente mensaje del Señor
: «¡Yo estoy con ustedes, dice el Señor
!».

14 Entonces el Señor
despertó el entusiasmo de Zorobabel, hijo de Salatiel, gobernador de Judá, y de Jesúa, hijo de Josadac, el sumo sacerdote, y de todo el remanente del pueblo de Dios. Comenzaron a trabajar en la casa de su Dios, el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales,

15 el 21 de septiembre
del segundo año del reinado del rey Darío.