Haggai 2:8

New King James Version

"The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' says the LORD of hosts.

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.

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 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 In the seventh month, on the twenty-first of the month, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying: ² "Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to the remnant of the people, saying: ³ 'Who is left among you who saw this temple Haggai 1:7, 9">[fn] in its former glory? And how do you see it now? In comparison with it, is this not in your eyes as nothing? ⁴ Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,' says the LORD; "and be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land,' says the LORD, "and work; for I am with you,' says the LORD of hosts. ⁵ "According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so My Spirit remains among you; do not fear!' ⁶ "For thus says the LORD of hosts: "Once more (it is a little while) I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; ⁷ and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to the Desire of All Nations, [fn] and I will fill this temple with glory,' says the Lord of hosts. ⁸ "The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine,' says the LORD of hosts. ⁹ "The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former,' says the LORD of hosts. "And in this place I will give peace,' says the LORD of hosts."

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
The LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground the LORD God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Genesis 3:24
So He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life.

Genesis 4:16
Then Cain went out from the presence of the LORD and dwelt in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar.

2 Kings 19:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar?

Isaiah 51:3
For the LORD will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, And her desert like the garden of the LORD; Joy and gladness will be found in it, Thanksgiving and the voice of melody.

Ezekiel 27:23
Haran, Canneh, Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Assyria, and Chilmad were your merchants.

Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God; Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, Sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold. The workmanship of your timbrels and pipes Was prepared for you on the day you were created.

Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations shake at the sound of its fall, when I cast it down to hell together with those who descend into the Pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the depths of 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.”