3. Who is left among you that saw this house in her first glory? and how do ye see her now? Is she not as nothing before your eyes?
4. Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, said the Lord; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all ye people of this land, said the Lord, and work; for I am with you, said the Lord of the hosts:
5. The word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt and my Spirit is in the midst of you: do not fear.
6. For thus hath the Lord of the hosts said: Yet even once, and I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;
7. and I will shake all the Gentiles; and the desire of all the Gentiles shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, said the Lord of the hosts.
8. The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, said the Lord of the hosts.
9. The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, said the Lord of the hosts, and in this place I will give peace, said the Lord of the hosts.
10. In the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,
11. Thus hath the Lord of the hosts said; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying,
12. If one bears holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt touches bread or pottage or wine, or oil or any food, shall it be made holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
13. Then Haggai said, If one that is unclean by a dead body touches any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
14. Then Haggai answered, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, said the Lord; and so is every work of their hands, and all that they offer here is unclean.