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'But now, do consider from this day onward: before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord :

from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

'I struck you and every work of your hands with scorching wind, mildew, and hail; yet you did not come back to Me,' declares the LORD.

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord .

'Do consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month; from the day when the temple of the LORD was founded, consider:

Consider now from this day and upward, 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.

'Is the seed still in the barn? Even including the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree, it has not produced fruit. Yet from this day on I will bless you.'"

Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, 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.