Haggai 2:8

Updated Bible Version

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says Yahweh 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.

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 In the seventh [month], in the one and twentieth [day] of the month, the word of Yahweh 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 that saw this house in its former glory? and how do you see it now? is it not in your eyes as nothing? ⁴ Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, says Yahweh; and be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest; and be strong, all you people of the land, says Yahweh, and work: for I am with you, says Yahweh of hosts, ⁵ [according to] the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit abode among you: don't be afraid. ⁶ For this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land; ⁷ and I will shake all nations; and the precious things of all nations shall come; and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of hosts. ⁸ The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, says Yahweh of hosts. ⁹ The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says Yahweh of hosts; and in this place I will give peace, says Yahweh 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
And Yahweh 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 made Yahweh God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life 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 at the east of the garden of Eden the Cherubim, and the flame of a sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life.

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

Genesis 13:10
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw all the Plain of the Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere, before Yahweh destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, like the garden of Yahweh, like the land of Egypt, as you go to Zoar.

2 Kings 19:12
Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden that were in Telassar?

Isaiah 51:3
For Yahweh has comforted Zion; he has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

Ezekiel 27:23
Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur [and] Chilmad, were your traffickers.

Ezekiel 28:13
You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, the sardius, the topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of your tabrets and of your pipes was in you; in the day that you were created they were prepared.

Ezekiel 31:16
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to Sheol with those that descend into the pit; and all the trees of Eden, the choice and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, were comforted in the nether parts 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.”