13. Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean from a corpse touches any of these, will the latter become unclean?" And the priests answered, "It will become unclean."
14. Then Haggai said, " 'So is this people. And so is this nation before Me,' declares the Lord, 'and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.
15. But now, do consider from this day onward: before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the Lord,
16. from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.
17. I smote you and every work of your hands with blasting wind, mildew and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,' declares the Lord.
18. 'Do consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the Lord was founded, consider:
19. Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree, it has not borne fruit. Yet from this day on I will bless you.'"
20. Then the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,
21. "Speak to Zerubbabel governor of Judah, saying, 'I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
22. I will overthrow the thrones of kingdoms and destroy the power of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots and their riders, and the horses and their riders will go down, everyone by the sword of another.'