Haggai 2

Revised Geneva Translation

2 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, came the Word of the LORD by the ministry of the Prophet Haggai, saying:

² “Speak now to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, prince of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak the High Priest, and to the rest 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? Does it not seem as nothing in your eyes by comparison?

⁴ ‘Yet now, be of good courage, O Zerubbabel!’ says the LORD, ‘And be of good comfort, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak the High Priest. And be strong, all you people of the land,’ says the LORD, ‘and do it. For I am with you,’ says the LORD of Hosts.

⁵ ‘According to the Word that I Covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit shall remain among you. Do not fear!’

⁶ “For thus says the LORD of Hosts: “Yet a little while, and I will shake the heavens and the Earth and the sea and the dry land.

⁷ ‘And I will move all nations. And the desire of all nations shall come. And I will fill this House with Glory,’ says the LORD of Hosts.

⁸ ‘The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,’ says the LORD of Hosts.

⁹ ‘The Glory of this last House shall be greater than the first,’ says the LORD of Hosts, ‘And in this place I will give peace,’ says the LORD of Hosts.”

¹⁰ On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the Word of the LORD came to the Prophet Haggai, saying,

¹¹ “Thus says the LORD of Hosts: ‘Ask the priests now concerning the Law, and say,

¹² “If one carries holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt he touches the bread or the pottage or the wine or oil or any food, shall it be holy?”’” And the priests answered and said, “No.”

¹³ Then Haggai said, “If a polluted person touches any of these, shall it be unclean?” And the priests answered, and said, “It shall be unclean.”

¹⁴ Then 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 that which they offer here is unclean.

¹⁵ ‘And now, please consider in your minds from this day forward: before a stone was laid upon a stone in the Temple of the LORD,

¹⁶ ‘before these things were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress, to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

¹⁷ ‘I struck you with blight, and with mildew, and with hail, in all the labors of your hands. Yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the LORD.

¹⁸ ‘Please consider in your minds from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s Temple was laid—consider it in your minds:

¹⁹ ‘Is the seed still in the barn? As yet, the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree have not brought forth fruit. From this day I will bless you.’”

²⁰ And again the Word of the LORD came to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,

²¹ “Speak to Zerubbabel, the prince of Judah, and say, ‘I will shake the heavens and the Earth!

²² ‘And I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms. And I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen. And I will overthrow the chariots, and those who ride in them. And the horse and the riders shall come down, each one by the sword of his brother.

²³ ‘At that time,’ says the LORD of Hosts, ‘I will take you, O Zerubbabel, My servant, the son of Shealtiel,’ says the LORD, ‘and will make you as a signet! For I have chosen you,’ says the LORD of Hosts.”