Shared Word Translation
Haggai 2
The Future Glory of the House
In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet:
“Speak now to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying,
‘Who is left among you
who saw this house
in its former glory?
And how do you see it now?
Is it not as nothing in your eyes?
Yet now be strong,
O Zerubbabel,’
declares the LORD.
‘Be strong,
O Joshua son of Jehozadak,
the high priest.
Be strong,
all you people of the land,’
declares the LORD.
‘Work,
for I am with you,’
declares the LORD of Hosts,
‘according to the covenant
that I made with you
when you came out of Egypt.
My Spirit stands in your midst.
Do not fear.’
For thus says the LORD of Hosts:
‘Yet once more,
in a little while,
I will shake the heavens and the earth
and the sea and the dry land.
And I will shake all nations,
and the treasures of all nations shall come in,
and I will fill this house with glory,’
says the LORD of Hosts.
‘The silver is mine,
and the gold is mine,’
declares the LORD of Hosts.
‘The latter glory of this house
shall be greater than the former,’
says the LORD of Hosts.
‘And in this place
I will give peace,’
declares the LORD of Hosts.”