15. Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the Lord’s temple.
16. Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
17. I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the Lord.
18. ‘Consider, please, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it.