Haggai 2:13-15

Lexham English Bible

¹³ Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean from contact with a corpse touches any of these, will it become unclean?” The priests answered, “Yes, it will be become unclean.” ¹⁴ And Haggai answered and said, “‘So it is with this people, and with this nation before me,’ declares^[a] Yahweh, ‘and so it is with every kind of work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean. ¹⁵ But now, please consider^[b] from this day forward, before one stone was placed on another in the temple of Yahweh,