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What does Haggai 2:5 mean?

"This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’"

— Haggai 2:5 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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 house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Isn’t it in your eyes as nothing?

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Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

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This is the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, and my Spirit lived among you. ‘Don’t be afraid.’

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For this is what Yahweh of Armies says: ‘Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, and the dry land;

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and I will shake all nations. The precious things of all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory, says Yahweh of Armies.

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The silver is mine, and the gold is mine,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

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