Haggai 2:8

Easy-to-Read Version

‘All their silver really belongs to me! And all the gold is mine!' This is what the Lord All-Powerful said.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“The silver and gold belong to me”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

Hebrew Names Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says the LORD of Hosts.

King James Version (1611)
The siluer is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

King James Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

English Standard Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.

New American Standard Bible
'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the LORD of armies.

New Century Version
‘The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says the Lord All-Powerful.

Amplified Bible
'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the LORD of hosts.

Geneva Bible (1587)
The siluer is mine, and the golde is mine, sayth the Lord of hostes.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'The silver is Mine and the gold is Mine,' declares the LORD of hosts.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' declares Yahweh of hosts.

Berean Standard Bible
The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, declares the LORD of Hosts.

Contemporary English Version
All silver and gold belong to me,

Complete Jewish Bible
"The silver is mine, and the gold is mine," says Adonai -Tzva'ot.

Darby Translation
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith Jehovah of hosts.

George Lamsa Translation
The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the LORD of hosts.

Good News Translation
All the silver and gold of the world is mine.

Lexham English Bible
‘The silver is mine and the gold is mine,' declares Yahweh of hosts.

Literal Translation
The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, says Jehovah of Hosts.

American Standard Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith Jehovah of hosts.

Bible in Basic English
The silver is mine and the gold is mine, says the Lord of armies.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Mine is the silver, and Mine the gold, saith the LORD of hosts.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The siluer is myne, and the golde is myne, sayth the Lorde of hoastes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and I will shake all nations, and the choice portions of all the nations shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, saith the Lord Almighty.

English Revised Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

World English Bible
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says Yahweh of Hosts.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Myn is siluer, and myn is gold, seith the Lord of oostes.

Update Bible Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says Yahweh of hosts.

Webster's Bible Translation
The silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the LORD of hosts.

New English Translation
‘The silver and gold will be mine,' says the Lord who rules over all.

New King James Version
"The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' says the LORD of hosts.

New Living Translation
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of Heaven's Armies.

New Life Bible
‘The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' says the Lord of All.

New Revised Standard
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Mine is the silver and Mine the gold, Declareth Yahweh of hosts:

Douay-Rheims Bible
(2-9) The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts.

Revised Standard Version
The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says the LORD of hosts.

Young's Literal Translation
Mine [is] the silver, and Mine the gold, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The syluer is myne, & the golde is myne, saieth the LORDE of hoostes.

THE MESSAGE
‘I own the silver, I own the gold.' Decree of God -of-the-Angel-Armies.

Contextual Overview

¹ On the 21st day of the seventh month, this message from the Lord came to Haggai: ² "Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the people. Say this: ³ ‘How many of you people look at this Temple and try to compare it to the beautiful Temple that was destroyed? What do you think? Does this Temple seem like nothing when you compare it with the first Temple? ⁴ But the Lord says, "Zerubbabel, don't be discouraged!" And the Lord says, "Joshua son of Jehozadak, you are the high priest. Don't be discouraged! And all you people who live in the land, don't be discouraged! Continue this work, because I am with you." This is what the Lord All-Powerful said. ⁵ "‘I made an agreement with you when you left Egypt, and I have kept my promise. My Spirit is with you, so don't be afraid!' ⁶ This is what the Lord All-Powerful said, ‘In just a little while, I will once again shake things up. I will shake heaven and earth, and I will shake the sea and the dry land. ⁷ I will shake up the nations, and they will come to you with wealth from every nation. And then I will fill this Temple with glory.' That is what the Lord All-Powerful said! ⁸ ‘All their silver really belongs to me! And all the gold is mine!' This is what the Lord All-Powerful said. ⁹ And the Lord All-Powerful said, ‘This last Temple will be more beautiful than the first one, and I will bring peace to this place.' Remember, this is what the Lord All-Powerful said."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Kings 6:20-35, 1 Chronicles 29:14-16, Psalms 24:1, Psalms 50:10-12, Isaiah 60:13, Isaiah 60:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:22 - the most Exodus 11:2 - borrow Exodus 38:24 - All the gold 2 Chronicles 25:8 - The Lord Ezra 6:8 - the king's Job 42:10 - the Lord Matthew 21:3 - The Lord 2 Corinthians 9:8 - God

Cross-References

Genesis 2:8
Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden.

Genesis 2:9
Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.

Genesis 3:24
God forced the man to leave the garden. Then he put Cherub angels and a sword of fire at the entrance to the garden to protect it. The sword flashed around and around, guarding the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 4:16
Cain went away from the Lord and lived in the land of Nod.

Genesis 13:10
Lot looked and saw the whole Jordan Valley. He saw that there was much water there. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. At that time the Jordan Valley all the way to Zoar was like the Lord 's Garden. This was good land, like the land of Egypt.)

2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of those nations save their people? No, my ancestors destroyed them all. They destroyed Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the people of Eden living in Tel Assar.

Isaiah 51:3
In the same way, the Lord will bless Zion. He will feel sorry for her and her people, and he will do something great for her. He will turn the desert into a garden. It will be like the Garden of Eden. The land was empty, but it will become like the Lord 's garden. People there will be very happy. They will sing victory songs to thank God for what he did.

Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad traded with you.

Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God. You had every precious stone— rubies, topaz, and diamonds, beryls, onyx, and jasper, sapphires, turquoise, and emeralds. And each of these stones was set in gold. You were given this beauty on the day you were created. God made you strong.

Ezekiel 31:16
I made the tree fall—and the nations shook with fear at the sound of the falling tree. I sent the tree down to the place of death to join the other people who had gone down into that deep hole. In the past, all the trees of Eden, the best of Lebanon, drank that water. The trees were comforted in the world below.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The silver [is] mine, and the gold [is] mine, saith the Lord of hosts. This seems designed to anticipate an objection taken from the gold and silver, with which the first temple was either decorated, or were in gifts dedicated to it; and which, it might easily be foreseen, would be wanting in the second temple; and in answer to which the Lord observes, that all the gold and silver in the world were his, were made by him, and were at his dispose; and therefore whatever were bestowed upon the former temple was only giving him his own; what he had a prior right to, and was no accession of riches or honour to him; and so it would be the same, let what would be expended on this; and therefore it was an article very inconsiderable, and of little significance; nor did he regard, or was he delighted with anything of this kind; and, was he so disposed, he could easily command all the gold and silver in the world together, and bring it into this house, to enrich and adorn it, without doing any injury to any person; but these were things he delighted not in; and, besides, he had a far greater glory in view to put upon this house, as follows:

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine - These words, which have occasioned some to think, that God, in speaking of the glory with which He should fill the house, meant our material riches, suggest the contrary. For silver was no ornament of the temple of Solomon. Everything was overlaid with gold. In the tabernacle there were bowls of silver, in Soloman’s temple they and all were of gold 1Ki 7:50; 2 Chronicles 4:8. Silver, we are expressly told, “was nothing accounted of 1 Kings 10:21 in the days of Solomon: he 1 Kings 10:27. made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones - for abundance.” Rather, as God says by the Psalmist Psalms 50:10-12, “Every beast of the forest is Mine, so are the cattle upon a thousand hills: I know all the fowls of the mountains, and the wild beasts of the field are Mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is Mine and the fullness thereof:” so here He tells them, that for the glory of His house He needed not gold or silver: for all the wealth of the world is His. They had no ground “to grieve then, that they could not equal the magnificence of Solomon who had abundance of gold and silver.” All was God’s. He would fill it with divine glory. The Desire of all nations, Christ, should come, and be a glory, to which all created glory is nothing.

“God says really and truly, that the silver and gold is His, which in utmost bounty He created, and in His most just government administers, so that, without His will and dominion, neither can the bad have gold and silver for the punishment of avarice, nor the good for the use of mercy. Its abundance does not inflate the good, nor its want crush them: but the bad, when bestowed, it blinds: when taken away, it tortures.”

“It is as if He would say, Think not the temple inglorious, because, may be, it will have no portion of gold or silver, and their splendor. I need not such things. How should I? “For Mine is the silver and Mine the gold, saith the Lord Almighty.” I seek rather true worshipers: with their brightness will I guild this temple. Let him come who hath right faith, is adorned by graces, gleams with love for Me, is pure in heart, poor in spirit, compassionate and good.” “These make the temple, i. e., the Church, glorious and renowned, being glorified by Christ. For they have learned to pray, Psalms 90:17. “The glory of the Lord our God be upon us.”