Haggai 2:11 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised ‘This is what the Lord of Armies says: Ask the priests for a ruling. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask now the priests to decide this question of law: American Standard Version (1901) Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Ask now the priests concerning the law, saying, Common English Bible This is what the LORD of heavenly forces says: Go ahead and ask the priests for a ruling: Catholic Public Domain Version On the twenty-fourth of the ninth month, in the second year of king Darius, the word of the Lord came to Haggai the prophet, saying: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius the king, the word of the Lord came to Aggeus the prophet, saying: |
Her priests do violence to my instruction and profane my holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they do not explain the difference between the clean and the unclean. They close their eyes to my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should desire instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Armies.
They will teach your ordinances to Jacob and your instruction to Israel; they will set incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
holding to the faithful message as taught, so that he will be able both to encourage with sound teaching and to refute those who contradict it.