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14 Then Haggai answered, “‘That’s how I look at this people and this nation,’ declares the Lord. ‘And that’s how it is with everything they undertake[a] and with what they offer there—it is unclean.[b] 15 Pay attention[c] from now on to how things used to be before one stone had been laid upon another in the Temple of the Lord. 16 When someone came to a pile of grain to get 20 measures,[d] there were only ten. Or when someone approached the wine press to siphon out 50 measures, there were only 20.

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 2:14 Lit. with every work of their hands
  2. Haggai 2:14 I.e. ritually defiled
  3. Haggai 2:15 The Heb. lacks Pay attention
  4. Haggai 2:16 Lit. a pile of 20