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2 : 1 On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the word of the LORD came through the prophet Haggai:
2 : 2 Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people. Ask them,
2 : 3 `Who of you is left who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing?
2 : 4 But now be strong, O Zerubbabel,` declares the LORD. `Be strong, O Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,` declares the LORD, `and work. For I am with you,` declares the LORD Almighty.
2 : 5 `This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.`
2 : 6 This is what the LORD Almighty says: `In a little while I will once more shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land.
2 : 7 I will shake all nations, and the desired of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,` says the LORD Almighty.
2 : 8 `The silver is mine and the gold is mine,` declares the LORD Almighty.
2 : 9 `The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,` says the LORD Almighty. `And in this place I will grant peace,` declares the LORD Almighty."
2 : 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:
2 : 11 This is what the LORD Almighty says: `Ask the priests what the law says:
2 : 12 If a person carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, oil or other food, does it become consecrated?` " The priests answered, "No."
2 : 13 Then Haggai said, "If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?" "Yes," the priests replied, "it becomes defiled."
2 : 14 Then Haggai said, " `So it is with this people and this nation in my sight,` declares the LORD. `Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled.
2 : 15 `Now give careful thought to this from this day on --consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the LORD`s temple.
2 : 16 When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty.
2 : 17 I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not turn to me,` declares the LORD.
2 : 18 `From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the LORD`s temple was laid. Give careful thought:
2 : 19 Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit. " `From this day on I will bless you.` "
2 : 20 The word of the LORD came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month:
2 : 21 Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I will shake the heavens and the earth.
2 : 22 I will overturn royal thrones and shatter the power of the foreign kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother.
2 : 23 `On that day,` declares the LORD Almighty, `I will take you, my servant Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel,` declares the LORD, `and I will make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you,` declares the LORD Almighty.