15 ‘ “Now give careful thought to this from this day on – consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the Lord’s temple.
16 When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty.
17 I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me,” declares the Lord.
18 “From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid. Give careful thought:
19 is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit.‘ “From this day on I will bless you.” ’
20 The word of the Lord came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month:
21 ‘Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.