Haggai 2 (NET)

Haggai 2:1¹On the twenty-first day of the seventh month, the Lord’ s message came through the prophet Haggai again:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:2²“Ask the following questions to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the remnant of the people:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:3³‘Who among you survivors saw the former splendor of this temple? How does it look to you now? Isn’t it nothing by comparison?’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:4⁴Even so, take heart, Zerubbabel,” decrees the Lord. “Take heart, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. And take heart all you citizens of the land,” decrees the Lord, “and begin to work. For I am with you,” decrees the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:5⁵“Do not fear, because I made a promise to your ancestors when they left Egypt, and my Spirit even now testifies to you.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:6⁶Moreover, this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said: “In just a little while I will once again shake the sky and the earth, the sea and the dry ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:7⁷I will also shake up all the nations, and they will offer their treasures; then I will fill this temple with glory.” So the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:8⁸“The silver and gold will be mine,” decrees the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:9⁹“The future splendor of this temple will be greater than that of former times,” the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has declared. “And in this place I will give peace,” decrees the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:10¹⁰On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month of Darius’ second year, the Lord’ s message came to the prophet Haggai:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:11¹¹“This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies has said, ‘Ask the priests about the law.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:12¹²If someone carries holy meat in a fold of his garment and that fold touches bread, a boiled dish, wine, olive oil, or any other food, will that item become holy?’” The priests answered, “It will not.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:13¹³Then Haggai asked, “If a person who is ritually unclean because of touching a dead body comes in contact with one of these items, will it become unclean?” The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:14¹⁴Then Haggai responded, “‘The people of this nation are unclean in my sight,’ decrees the Lord. ‘And so is all their effort; everything they offer is also unclean.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:15¹⁵Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, before one stone was laid on another in the Lord ’s temple.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:16¹⁶From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:17¹⁷I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:18¹⁸‘Think carefully about the past: from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed, think about it.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:19¹⁹The seed is still in the storehouse, isn’t it? And the vine, fig tree, pomegranate, and olive tree have not produced. Nevertheless, from today on I will bless you.’”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:20²⁰Then the Lord spoke to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month:Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:21²¹“Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah: ‘I am ready to shake the sky and the earth.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:22²²I will overthrow royal thrones and shatter the might of earthly kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and those who ride them, and horses and their riders will fall as people kill one another.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Haggai 2:23²³On that day,’ says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, ‘I will take you, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, my servant,’ says the Lord, ‘and I will make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you,’ says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions