15 But now, set your heart back from this day onward. Before stone was set upon stone in the Temple of Adonai,
16 how were things? When one came to a grain-heap of twenty measures, there were ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were twenty.
17 I struck you with blight and with mildew and with hail—every work of your hands—so you were nothing to Me”—it is a declaration of Adonai.
18 “Now, set your heart back from this day on—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day the Temple of Adonai was founded, set your heart:
19 Is there still seed in the storehouse? Also the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree—are they still bearing fruit? From this day on I am going to bless you.”
20 Then the word of Adonai came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month,
21 “Say to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: ‘I am going to shake the heavens and the earth,