Ageu 1:13

13 Então Ageu, o mensageiro do SENHOR, trouxe esta mensagem do SENHOR para o povo: “Eu estou com vocês”, declara o SENHOR.

Ageu 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.

Ageu 1:13 In-Context

11 Nos campos e nos montes provoquei uma seca que atingiu o trigo, o vinho, o azeite e tudo mais que a terra produz, e também os homens e o gado. O trabalho das mãos de vocês foi prejudicado”.

12 Zorobabel, filho de Sealtiel, o sumo sacerdote Josué, filho de Jeozadaque, e todo o restante do povo obedeceram à voz do SENHOR, o seu Deus, por causa das palavras do profeta Ageu, a quem o SENHOR, o seu Deus, enviara. E o povo temeu o SENHOR.

13 Então Ageu, o mensageiro do SENHOR, trouxe esta mensagem do SENHOR para o povo: “Eu estou com vocês”, declara o SENHOR.

14 Assim o SENHOR encorajou o governador de Judá, Zorobabel, filho de Sealtiel, o sumo sacerdote Josué, filho de Jeozadaque, e todo o restante do povo, e eles começaram a trabalhar no templo do SENHOR dos Exércitos, o seu Deus,

15 no vigésimo quarto dia do sexto mês do segundo ano do reinado de Dario.