CAB(i)
8 (2:9) Mine is the silver, and Mine the gold, says the Lord Almighty.
9 (2:10) For the glory of this house shall be great, the latter more than the former, says the Lord Almighty: and in this place will I give peace, says the Lord Almighty, even peace of soul for a possession to everyone that builds, to raise up this temple.
10 (2:11) On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying,
11 (2:12) Thus says the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priest concerning the law, saying,
12 (2:13) If a man should take holy meat in the fold of his garment, and the fold of his garment should touch bread, or stew, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
13 (2:14) And Haggai 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.
14 (2:15) And Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, says the Lord; and so are all the works of their hands: and whosoever shall approach them, shall be defiled because of their early burdens: they shall be pained because of their toils; and you have hated him that reproved in the gates.
15 (2:16) And now consider from this day forward, before they laid a stone upon a stone in the temple of the Lord, what manner of men you were.