nsb - Haggai:2:10-19

nsb@Haggai:2:10 @ On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month of the second year that Darius was king, Jehovah spoke again to the prophet Haggai.

nsb@Haggai:2:11 @ He said: »Ask the priests for a ruling on this question of law.

nsb@Haggai:2:12 @ »A man takes a piece of consecrated meat from a sacrifice and carries it in a fold of his robe. He then lets his robe touch any bread, cooked food, wine, olive oil, or any kind of food at all. Will it make that food consecrated also?« When the question was asked, the priests answered, »No.«

nsb@Haggai:2:13 @ Then Haggai asked: »This person is defiled because he has touched a dead body. If he then touches any of these foods, will that make them defiled too?« The priests answered, »Yes.«

nsb@Haggai:2:14 @ Then Haggai said: »Jehovah declared that the same thing applies to the people of this nation and to everything they produce; and so everything they offer on the altar is defiled.«

nsb@Haggai:2:15 @ »Can you see what has happened to you,« Jehovah asked, »before you started to rebuild the Temple?

nsb@Haggai:2:16 @ »You would go to a pile of grain looking for twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat and find only twenty.

nsb@Haggai:2:17 @ »I struck you with scorching winds, mildew and hail to ruin everything you tried to grow,« declared Jehovah, »but you still did not repent.

nsb@Haggai:2:18 @ »Today is the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day that the foundation of the Temple of Jehovah was completed. See what is going to happen from now on.

nsb@Haggai:2:19 @ »There is no grain left. The grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced. However from now on I will bless you.«