Charles Spurgeon Commentary Haggai 2:5-6

"[according to] the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, and my Spirit abode among you: fear ye not. For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;" — Haggai 2:5-6 (ASV)

According to the word that I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt, so my spirit remains among you: fear not.

For thus says the LORD of hosts; Yet once, it is a little while,

Though some read it to mean "but a little structure," yet our reading is perhaps better—it is but a little while.