Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying, This people said the time was not come, the time of the house of Jehovah to be built

Is the time for you, O ye, to dwell in your covered houses, and this house a waste?

For this the heavens over you were shut up from dew, and the earth withheld her produce.

Who being left among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how see ye it now? Is it not in your eyes like it as nothing?

And I shook all nations, and the desire of all nations came; and I filled this house with glory, said Jehovah of armies.

Great shall be the glory of this latter house above the first, said Jehovah of armies: and in this place I will give peace, says Jehovah of armies.

And Haggai will answer and say, Thus this people and thus this nation before me, says Jehovah; and thus all the work of their hands; and what they shall bring near there it is unclean.

And now, set now your heart from this day and upward, before setting stone upon stone in the temple of Jehovah.

Set now your heart from this day and upward, from the twenty and fourth day to the ninth, from the day that the temple of Jehovah was founded, set ye your heart

Is the seed yet in the storehouse? and even the vine and the fig tree, and the pomegranate and the olive tree bore not: from this day will I praise.