Haggai 2:8

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

Unto Me is the silver, and unto Me the gold, a declaration of YHWH of Hosts.

Latin

Meum est argentum, et meum est aurum, dicit Dominus exercituum.

Hebrew

English

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

Haggai’s second message assures the community that God remembers his promises, made by earlier prophets, to bless and restore them (for example, Isaiah 35; 40:1–11; 52:1–12; Jeremiah 32:36–44; 33:6–26).

Theme notes and profiles

Psalm 50:10–12
…for every beast of the forest is Mine—the cattle on a thousand hills.
Psalm 24:1
A Psalm of David. The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell therein.
Isaiah 60:17
Instead of bronze I will bring you gold; I will bring silver in place of iron, bronze instead of wood, and iron instead of stones. I will appoint peace as your governor and righteousness as your ruler.
1 Chronicles 29:14–16
But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to give as generously as this? For everything comes from You, and from Your own hand we have given to You.
Isaiah 60:13
The glory of Lebanon will come to you—its cypress, elm, and boxwood together—to adorn the place of My sanctuary, and I will glorify the place of My feet.
1 Kings 6:20–35
The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold, and he also overlaid the altar of cedar.

LORD: Names or title used to refer to God