Haggai 2:2-15

MKJV^{(i) 2} Now speak to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying, ³ Who is left among you who saw this house in her first glory? And how do you see it now? When compared to it, is it not as nothing in your eyes? ⁴ Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says Jehovah. And be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong all people of the land, says Jehovah, and work; for I am with you, says Jehovah of Hosts ⁵ with the Word who cut a covenant with you when you came out of Egypt, and My Spirit remains among you. Do not fear. ⁶ For so says Jehovah of Hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land. ⁷ And I will shake all the nations; and the desire of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, says Jehovah of Hosts. ⁸ The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, says Jehovah of Hosts. ⁹ The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former, says Jehovah of Hosts. And in this place I will give peace, says Jehovah of Hosts. ¹⁰ In the twenty-fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet, saying, ¹¹ So says Jehovah of Hosts: Now ask the priests the Law, saying, ¹² If one carries holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and touches his skirt to bread, or boiled food, or wine, or oil, or any food, will it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No. ¹³ Then Haggai said, If one unclean of body touches these, is it unclean? And the priests answered and said, It is unclean. ¹⁴ And Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before Me, says Jehovah. And so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean. ¹⁵ And now, I ask you, set your heart on it; from this day and onward, before the placing of a stone on a stone in the temple of Jehovah;