HAG-2:1  In the seventh [month], in the one and twentieth [day]

of the month,

came the word of the LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,

HAG-2:2  Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor

of Judah, and

to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to the

residue of the

people, saying,

HAG-2:3  Who [is] left among you that saw this house in her

first glory? and

how do ye see it now? [is it] not in your eyes in comparison of

it as nothing?

HAG-2:4  Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be

strong, O

Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye

people of the

land, saith the LORD, and work: for I [am] with you, saith the

LORD of hosts:

HAG-2:5  [According to] the word that I covenanted with you when

ye came out

of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.

HAG-2:6  For thus saith the LORD 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];

HAG-2:7  And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all

nations shall

come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of

hosts.

HAG-2:8  The silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the

LORD of

hosts.

HAG-2:9  The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of

the former,

saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace,

saith the LORD

of hosts.

HAG-2:10  In the four and twentieth [day] of the ninth [month],

in the second

year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet,

saying,

HAG-2:11  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests

[concerning] the

law, saying,

HAG-2:12  If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment,

and with his

skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat,

shall it be

holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

HAG-2:13  Then said Haggai, If [one that is] unclean by a dead

body touch any

of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said,

 It shall be

unclean.

HAG-2:14  Then answered Haggai, and said, So [is] this people,

and so [is]

this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so [is] every work of

their hands;

and that which they offer there [is] unclean.

HAG-2:15  And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward,

 from before

a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

HAG-2:16  Since those [days] were, when [one] came to an heap of

twenty

[measures], there were [but] ten: when [one] came to the

pressfat for to draw

out fifty [vessels] out of the press, there were [but] twenty.

HAG-2:17  I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with

hail in all the

labours of your hands; yet ye [turned] not to me, saith the LORD.

HAG-2:18  Consider now from this day and upward, from the four

and twentieth

day of the ninth [month, even] from the day that the foundation

of the LORD'S

temple was laid, consider [it].

HAG-2:19  Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and

the fig tree,

and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth:

from this day

will I bless [you].

HAG-2:20  And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the

four and

twentieth [day] of the month, saying,

HAG-2:21  Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will

shake the

heavens and the earth;

HAG-2:22  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 that ride in them; and the horses and their riders

shall come down,

every one by the sword of his brother.

HAG-2:23  In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee,

 O

Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD,

and will make

thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of

hosts.

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