Haggai 2:16
14 Then Haggai replied, “So it is with this people and this nation before Me, declares the LORD, and so it is with every work of their hands; whatever they offer there is defiled.
15 Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
17 I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.
18 Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
- KJV
- Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
- WEB
- Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
- ASV
- Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty [vessels], there were but twenty.
- DARBY
- before those [days] were, when one came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were but ten; when one came to the vat to draw out fifty press-measures, there were but twenty.
- BLB
- From their being, [when] one came toward a heap of twenty, then there were [but] ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty [from] the press, then there were [but] twenty.
- ÅB
- Kom noen i den tid til en haug med kornbånd som han tenkte skulle gi tyve mål, så ble det bare ti; kom noen til persekaret for å øse opp femti spann, så ble det bare tyve.
- OTB
- Når noen kom til en haug og forventet tjue mål,
var det bare ti.
Når noen gikk til en vinpresse for å trekke femti mål,
var det bare tjue. - B1930
- Kom nogen i den tid til en haug med kornbånd som han tenkte skulde gi tyve mål, så blev det bare ti; kom nogen til persekaret for å øse op femti spann, så blev det bare tyve.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Haggai 1:6
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
Read in contextProverbs 3:9–10
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your harvest;
Read in contextMalachi 2:2
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
Read in contextHaggai 1:9–11
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
Read in contextZechariah 8:10–12
For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor.
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