Daily Meditation
9 The glory of this
latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and
in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.
Today’s Reading
Haggai
Chapter 2
I will shake all
nations
1 In the seventh
month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word of the Lord by
the prophet Haggai, saying, 2 Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel,
governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and to
the residue of the people, saying, 3 Who is left among you that saw this house
in her first glory? and how do ye see it now? is it not in your eyes in
comparison of it as nothing? 4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the Lord;
and be strong, O Joshua, son of Josedech, the high priest; and be strong, all
ye people of the land, saith the Lord, and work: for I am with you, saith the
Lord of hosts: 5 according to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came
out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.
6 For thus saith the
Lord of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens,
and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; 7 and I will shake all nations,
and the desire of all nations shall come: and I will fill this house with
glory, saith the Lord of hosts. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,
saith the Lord of hosts. 9 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than
of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace,
saith the Lord of hosts.
10 In the four and
twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word
of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying, 11 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Ask
now the priests concerning the law, saying, 12 If one bear holy flesh in the
skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine,
or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
13 Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these,
shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean. 14
Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before
me, saith the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they
offer there is unclean. 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and
upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord: 16
since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were
but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the
press, there were but twenty. 17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and
with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the
Lord. 18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day
of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple
was laid, consider it. 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine,
and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought
forth: from this day will I bless you.
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