18. Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider:
19. Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you.”
20. The word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month,
21. “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,