Thus speaks LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time [for us] to come, the time for LORD's house to be built.

Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lays waste?

Who is left among you that saw this house in its former glory? And how do ye see it now? Is it not in your eyes as nothing?

And I will shake all nations, and the precious things of all nations shall come, and I will fill this house with glory, says LORD of hosts.

The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says LORD of hosts, and in this place I will give peace, says LORD of hosts.

Then Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, says LORD, and so is every work of their hands. And that which they offer there is unclean.

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of LORD.

Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth [month], since the day that the foundation of LORD's temple was laid, consider it.

Is the seed yet in the barn? Yea, the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not brought forth. From this day I will bless [you].