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and how do ye see it now? is not such a one as nothing in your eyes? <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the LORD; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt have I established, and My spirit abideth among you; fear ye not. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and I will shake all nations, and the choicest things of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, saith the LORD of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Mine is the silver, and Mine the gold, saith the LORD of hosts. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>The glory of this latter house shall be greater than that of the former, saith the LORD of hosts; and in this place will I give peace, saith the LORD of hosts.’ <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>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: <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>‘Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Ask now the priests for instruction, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>If one bear hallowed flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be holy?’ And the priests answered and said: ‘No.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>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.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And now, I pray you, consider from this day and forward—before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD, <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty press-measures, there were but twenty; <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to Me, saith the LORD— <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>consider, I pray you, from this day and forward, 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; <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree hath not brought forth—from this day will I bless you.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And the word of the LORD came the second time unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>‘Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying: I will shake the heavens and the earth; <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; 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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/haggai/2-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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.’</div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../haggai/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Haggai 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Haggai 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../zechariah/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Zechariah 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Zechariah 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/haggai/2-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); var rcds = document.getElementById("rcjsload_a957f3"); var rcel = document.createElement("script"); rcel.id = 'rc_' + Math.floor(Math.random() * 1000); rcel.type = 'text/javascript'; rcel.src = "https://trends.revcontent.com/serve.js.php?w=111176&t="+rcel.id+"&c="+(new Date()).getTime()+"&width="+(window.outerWidth || document.documentElement.clientWidth)+"&referer="+encodeURIComponent(referer); rcel.async = true; rcds.appendChild(rcel); })(); </script> </td></tr></table> <br /><br /> <div class="bot2"> <table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="6710025936" data-ad-format="auto"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script></td></tr></table></div><br /><br /> </div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnm2-bhub.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span></div></div></body></html>