16 A person used to come to a pile of grain expecting to find twenty basketfuls, but there were only ten. And a person used to come to the wine vat to take out fifty jarfuls, but only twenty were there.
17 I destroyed your work with diseases, mildew, and hail, but you still did not come back to me,’ says the Lord.
18 ‘It is the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day in which the people finished working on the foundation of the Temple of the Lord. From now on, think about these things:
19 Do you have seeds for crops still in the barn? Your vines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not given fruit yet. But from now on I will bless you!’ ”
20 Then the Lord spoke his word a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month. He said,
21 “Tell Zerubbabel, the governor of Judah, ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.
22 I will destroy the foreign kingdoms and take away the power of the kingdoms of the nations. I will destroy the chariots and their riders. The horses will fall with their riders, as people kill each other with swords.’