¹⁵ Pay attention^[a] from now on to how things used to be before one stone had been laid upon another in the Temple of the Lord. ¹⁶ When someone came to a pile of grain to get 20 measures,^[b] there were only ten. Or when someone approached the wine press to siphon out 50 measures, there were only 20. ¹⁷ I punished you and everything that you undertook^[c]—with scorching wind, with mildew, and with hail, and you still did not return^[d] to me,’ declares the Lord. ¹⁸ ‘Pay attention from now on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month,^[e] when the foundation of the Lord’s Temple was laid. Pay attention! ¹⁹ Is there seed left in the granary? Up until now, neither the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, nor the olive tree has borne fruit, but from this very day I will bless you.’”^[f]