Promised Blessing

¹⁵ ‘And now, carefully ^(A)consider from this day forward: from before stone was laid upon stone in the temple of the Lord— ¹⁶ since those days, ^(B)when one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, there were but twenty. ^17 (C)I struck you with blight and mildew and hail ^(D)in all the labors of your hands; ^(E)yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the Lord. ¹⁸ ‘Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from ^(F)the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid—consider it: ^19 (G)Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will ^(H)bless you.’ ”