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Haggai 2:14

World English Bible

Then Haggai answered, “ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.

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Haggai 2:14 in other translations

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

Haggai 2:14 · American Standard Version

Haggai 2:14 in context

  1. 12‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’ ”
    The priests answered, “No.”
  2. 13Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?”
    The priests answered, “It will be unclean.”
  3. 14Then Haggai answered, “ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me,’ says Yahweh; ‘and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.
  4. 15Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.
  5. 16Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.