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14 Then Haggai continued,

So it is with this people and this nation
    in my view, says the Lord.
So also are all the works of their hands;
    whatever they offer here is unclean.

15 But now, think back to recent times as you ponder the future. Before one stone was laid upon another in the temple of the Lord, how did you fare?

16 When you came to a heap
    of twenty measures of grain,
    you would find only ten.
When you came to a wine vat
    to draw fifty measures,
    you would find only twenty.

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