Haggai 2 In the seventh month, in the twenty first of the month, the word of Yahweh comes by the hand of Haggai, the prophet, saying,

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ In the seventh month, in the twenty first of the month, the word of Yahweh comes by the hand of Haggai, the prophet, saying, ² Say, I pray, to Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, viceroy of Judah, and to Joshua, son of Josedech, the great priest, and to all the remnant of the people, saying:" ³ Do any remain among you who saw this house in its former glory? And what are you seeing it to be now? Is it not likewise as nothing in your eyes? ⁴ Yet now be steadfast, Zerubbabel, (averring is Yahweh), and be steadfast, Joshua, son of Josedech, the great priest, and be steadfast, all you people of the land, (averring is Yahweh), and do it, for I am with you, (averring is Yahweh of hosts)--" ⁵ the word which I contract with you when you fared forth from Egypt; and My spirit is standing in your midst:You must not fear. ⁶ For thus says Yahweh of hosts:Still once, a little it is, and I am quaking the heavens and the earth and the sea and the drained land;" ⁷ and I will quake all the nations; and the coveted of all the nations shall come. And I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of hosts." ⁸ Mine is the silver, and Mine is the gold, (averring is Yahweh of hosts)." ⁹ Greater shall become the glory of this latter house than the former, says Yahweh of hosts. And in this place will I give peace, (averring is Yahweh of hosts)." ¹⁰ On the twenty fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of Yahweh comes to Haggai, the prophet, saying, ¹¹ Thus says Yahweh of hosts:Ask, I pray, the priests of the law, saying, ¹² Behold! a man is bearing holy flesh in the hem of his garment, and with his hem touches bread or stew or wine or oil or any food. Is it holy? And the priests are answering and saying, No." ¹³ Then Haggai is saying, If an unclean soul be touching any of these, is it unclean? And the priests are answering and saying, It is unclean." ¹⁴ Then Haggai is answering and saying, So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, (averring is Yahweh). And so is every deed of their hands, and what they are bringing near there; it is unclean." ¹⁵ And now, set, I pray, your heart from this day and onward. Ere was placed a stone on a stone in the temple of Yahweh, ¹⁶ what came to you? One came to a threshed grain bin for twenty seahs, yet it came to be ten. One came to a wine-vat to make it bare of fifty measures in the winepress, yet it came to be twenty." ¹⁷ I smote you with blasting and with green mold and with hail in all the work of your hands, yet you are not returning to Me, (averring is Yahweh)." ¹⁸ Set, I pray, your heart from this day and onward. From the twenty fourth day of the ninth month, from the day on which the temple of Yahweh is founded, set your heart." ¹⁹ Is the seed still in the underground hoard? And have the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree still not borne? From this day will I bless. ²⁰ And the word of Yahweh is coming a second time to Haggai, the prophet, on the twenty fourth of the month, saying, ²¹ Speak to Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, viceroy of Judah, saying:I am quaking the heavens and the earth, and the sea and the drained land." ²² And I will overturn the thrones of kingdoms, and I will exterminate the steadfastness of the kingdoms of the nations, and overturn the chariot and its riders, and the horses and their riders go down, each man by the sword of his brother." ²³ In that day, (averring is Yahweh of hosts), I will take you, Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, My servant, (averring is Yahweh), and will place you as a seal, for I have chosen you, (averring is Yahweh of hosts)."