Messiah 14: There were shepherds abiding in the field / And lo! the Angel of the Lord came upon them

Luke 2:8-9
8 And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night.
9 And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

These two recitatives are numbered as 14 & 14a in the Novello (Shaw) edition, so we are grouping them together. (The recording has all four recitatives.)