Haggai 2:13-15

Christian Standard Bible

¹³ Then Haggai asked, “If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” ^(A)

The priests answered, “It becomes defiled.”

¹⁴ Then Haggai replied, “So is this people, and so is this nation before me—this is the Lord’s declaration. And so is every work of their hands; even what they offer there is defiled.

¹⁵ “Now from this day on, think carefully: Before one stone was placed on another in the Lord’s temple,