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How does it look to you now? Is it not in your sight as nothing? </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>Yet now take courage, O Zerubbabel, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; take courage, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; take courage, all you people of the land, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; work, for I am with you, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>according to the promise that I made you when you came out of Egypt. My spirit abides among you; do not fear. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>For thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts: Once again, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>and I will shake all the nations, so that the treasure of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with splendor, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>The latter splendor of this house shall be greater than the former, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts; and in this place I will give prosperity, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">A Rebuke and a Promise</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> came by the prophet Haggai, saying: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts: Ask the priests for a ruling: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>If one carries consecrated meat in the fold of one’s garment, and with the fold touches bread, or stew, or wine, or oil, or any kind of food, does it become holy? The priests answered, “No.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered, “Yes, it becomes unclean.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Haggai then said, So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; and so with every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>But now, consider what will come to pass from this day on. Before a stone was placed upon a stone in the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>’s temple, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>how did you fare?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-27144a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and mildew and hail; yet you did not return to me, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>Consider from this day on, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>’s temple was laid, consider: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>Is there any seed left in the barn? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still yield nothing? From this day on I will bless you.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">God’s Promise to Zerubbabel</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>The word of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month: </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms; I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders; and the horses and their riders shall fall, every one by the sword of a comrade. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>On that day, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, son of Shealtiel, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, and make you like a signet ring; for I have chosen you, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> of hosts.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Haggai 2:16">Haggai 2:16</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>since they were</i></span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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