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18 “Think about this eighteenth day of December, the day[a] when the foundation of the Lord’s Temple was laid. Think carefully. 19 I am giving you a promise now while the seed is still in the barn.[b] You have not yet harvested your grain, and your grapevines, fig trees, pomegranates, and olive trees have not yet produced their crops. But from this day onward I will bless you.”

Promises for Zerubbabel

20 On that same day, December 18,[c] the Lord sent this second message to Haggai:

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Footnotes

  1. 2:18 Or On this eighteenth day of December, think about the day.
  2. 2:19 Hebrew Is the seed yet in the barn?
  3. 2:20 Hebrew On the twenty-fourth day of the [ninth] month; see note on 2:10.

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