Haggai 2:10-19

The People's Unfaithfulness Reproved

¹⁰ On the twenty and fourth of the ninth 'month', in the second year of Darius, hath a word of Jehovah been by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying: ¹¹ Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: 'Ask, I pray thee, the priests 'of' the law, saying: ¹² Lo, one doth carry holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and he hath come with his skirt against the bread, or against the pottage, or against the wine, or against the oil, or against any food—is it holy?' And the priests answer and say, 'No.' ¹³ And Haggai saith, 'If the unclean of body doth come against any of these, is it unclean?' And the priests answer and say, 'It is unclean.' ¹⁴ And Haggai answereth and saith, 'So 'is' this people, and so 'is' this nation before Me—an affirmation of Jehovah—and so 'is' every work of their hands, and that which they bring near there—it is unclean. ¹⁵ And now, lay 'it', I pray you, to your heart, From this day, and onwards, Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah. ¹⁶ From that time 'one' hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty. ¹⁷ I have smitten you with blasting, And with mildew, and with hail—All the work of your hands, And there is none of you with Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. ¹⁸ Set 'it', I pray you, to your heart, from this day and onwards, from the twenty and fourth day of the ninth 'month', even from the day that the temple of Jehovah hath been founded, set 'it' to your heart. ¹⁹ Is the seed yet in the barn? And hitherto the vine and the fig, And the pomegranate, and the olive-tree, Have not borne—from this day I bless.'