13. Then Haggai said, ‘If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?’‘Yes,’ the priests replied, ‘it becomes defiled.’
14. Then Haggai said, ‘ “So it is with this people and this nation in my sight,” declares the Lord. “Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled.
15. ‘ “Now give careful thought to this from this day on – consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the Lord’s temple.