¹⁵ Now then, ^(A)consider from this day onward.^[a] Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord, ¹⁶ how did you fare? ^(B)When^[b] one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. ^17 (C)I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, ^(D)yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. ^18 (E)Consider from this day onward, ^(F)from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since ^(G)the day that the foundation of the Lord's temple was laid, ^(H)consider: ^19 (I)Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on ^(J)I will bless you.”