15 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the Lord: and so are all the works of their hands, and that which they offer here, is unclean.

16 And now, I pray you, consider in your minds: from this [a]day and afore, even afore a stone was laid upon a stone in the Temple of the Lord:

17 [b]Before these things were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the winepress, for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

18 I smote you with blasting, and with mildew, and with hail, in all the labors of your hands: yet you turned not to me, saith the Lord.

19 Consider, I pray you, in your minds, from [c]this day, and afore, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s Temple was laid: consider it in your minds.

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 2:16 Consider how God did plague you with famine afore you began to build the Temple.
  2. Haggai 2:17 That is, before the building was begun.
  3. Haggai 2:19 From the time they began to build the Temple, he promiseth that God would bless them: and albeit as yet the fruit was not come forth, yet in the gathering they should have plenty.

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