18 I smote you with blasting, and with mildew, and with hail, in all the labors of your hands: yet you turned not to me, saith the Lord.

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.

Read full chapter

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.

18 ‘From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought(A) to the day when the foundation(B) of the Lord’s temple was laid. Give careful thought: 19 Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate(C) and the olive tree have not borne fruit.(D)

“‘From this day on I will bless(E) you.’”

Zerubbabel the Lord’s Signet Ring

20 The word of the Lord came to Haggai(F) a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month:(G)

Read full chapter