Catholic Public Domain Version
"And Haggai answered and he said: Such is this people, and such is this nation before my face, says the Lord, and such is all the work of their hands. And so all that they have offered there has been contaminated. "
— Haggai 2:15, Catholic Public Domain Version
“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:”
“And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah. ”
“Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.”
“Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, before one stone was laid on another in the LORD’s temple.”
“And Haggai answered, and said: So is this people, and so is this nation before my face, saith the Lord, and so is all the work of their hands: and all that they have offered there, shall be defiled.”
“And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:”
“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:”
Thus says the Lord of hosts: the priests question the law, saying:
If a man will have carried sanctified flesh in the pocket of his garment, and the top of it touches his bread, or appetizer, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it be sanctified? But the priests responded by saying, “No.”
And Haggai said, “If the polluted in soul will have touched any of all these things, shall it be contaminated?” And the priests responded and said, “It shall be contaminated.”
And Haggai answered and he said: Such is this people, and such is this nation before my face, says the Lord, and such is all the work of their hands. And so all that they have offered there has been contaminated.
And now, consider in your hearts, from this day and beyond, before stone may be placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord:
when you approached a pile of twenty measures, and they became ten, and you entered to the press, to press out fifty bottles, and they became twenty,
how I struck you with a burning wind, and a mildew, and a hailstorm, all the works of your hand, yet there was no one among you who returned to me, says the Lord.