Haggai 2:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁹ The latter splendour of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts; and in this place I will give prosperity, says the Lord of hosts.

A Rebuke and a Promise

¹⁰ On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by the prophet Haggai, saying: ¹¹ Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests for a ruling: