Haggai 2:13-15

Contemporary English Version

^13 (A) Then Haggai said, “Suppose someone has touched a dead body and is considered unacceptable to worship God. If that person touches these foods, would they become unclean?”

“Of course they would,” the priests answered.

¹⁴ So the Lord told Haggai to say:

That's how it is with this entire nation. Everything you do and every sacrifice you offer is unacceptable to me. ¹⁵ But from now on, things will get better. Before you started laying the foundation for the temple,