Haggai 2:13-15

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

¹³ Then Haggai asked, ‘If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled? ’^(A)

The priests answered, ‘It becomes defiled.’

¹⁴ Then Haggai replied, ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before me – this is the Lord’s declaration. And so is every work of their hands; even what they offer there is defiled.

¹⁵ ‘Now from this day on, think carefully: Before one stone was placed on another in the Lord’s temple,