19 Consider, I pray you, in your minds, from [a]this day, and afore, 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 in your minds.

20 Is the [b]seed yet in the barn? as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.

21 And again the word of the Lord came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 2:19 From the time they began to build the Temple, he promiseth that God would bless them: and albeit as yet the fruit was not come forth, yet in the gathering they should have plenty.
  2. Haggai 2:20 He exhorteth them to patience, and to abide till the harvest came, and then they should see God’s blessings.

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