Haggai 2:8

New Century Version

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

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.

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.

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.

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 twenty-first day of the seventh month, the Lord spoke his word through Haggai the prophet, saying, ² "Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the rest of the people who are left alive. Say, ³ ‘Do any of you remember how great the Temple was before it was destroyed? What does it look like now? Doesn't it seem like nothing to you?' ⁴ But the Lord says, ‘Zerubbabel, be brave. Also, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, be brave. And all you people who live in the land, be brave,' says the Lord . ‘Work, because I am with you,' says the Lord All-Powerful. ⁵ ‘I made a promise to you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit is still with you. So don't be afraid.' ⁶ "This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: ‘In a short time I will once again shake the heavens and the earth, the sea and the dry land. ⁷ I will shake all the nations, and they will bring their wealth. Then I will fill this Temple with glory,' says the Lord All-Powerful. ⁸ ‘The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,' says the Lord All-Powerful. ⁹ ‘The new Temple will be greater than the one before,' says the Lord All-Powerful. ‘And in this place I will give peace,' says the Lord All-Powerful."

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 called Eden, and put the man he had formed into it.

Genesis 2:9
The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life and also the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 3:24
After God forced humans out of the garden, he placed angels and a sword of fire that flashed around in every direction on its eastern border. This kept people from getting to the tree of life.

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

Genesis 13:10
Lot looked all around and saw the whole Jordan Valley and that there was much water there. It was like the Lord 's garden, like the land of Egypt in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

2 Kings 19:12
Did the gods of those people save them? My ancestors destroyed them, defeating the cities of Gozan, Haran, and Rezeph, and the people of Eden living in Tel Assar.

Isaiah 51:3
So the Lord will comfort Jerusalem; he will show mercy to those who live in her ruins. He will change her deserts into a garden like Eden; he will make her empty lands like the garden of the Lord . People there will be very happy; they will give thanks and sing songs.

Ezekiel 27:23
"‘People of Haran, Canneh, Eden, and the traders of Sheba, Asshur, and Kilmad became merchants for you.

Ezekiel 28:13
You had a wonderful life, as if you were in Eden, the garden of God. Every valuable gem was on you: ruby, topaz, and emerald, yellow quartz, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and chrysolite. Your jewelry was made of gold. It was prepared on the day you were created.

Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations shake with fear at the sound of the tree falling when I brought it down to the place of the dead. It went to join those who have gone down to the grave. Then all the trees of Eden and the best trees of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were comforted in the place of the dead below the earth.

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.”