Haggai 2:16

14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

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.

17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.

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

    Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

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  • Proverbs 3:9–10

    Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:

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  • Malachi 2:2

    If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.

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  • Haggai 1:9–11

    Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

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  • Zechariah 8:10–12

    For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

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