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,