17. I struck you — all the work of your hands — with blight, mildew, and hail, but you didn’t turn to Me” — this is the Lord’s declaration.
18. “Consider carefully from this day forward; from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid; consider it carefully.
19. Is there still seed left in the granary? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet produced. But from this day on I will bless you.”
20. The word of the Lord came to Haggai a second time on the twenty-fourth day of the month:
21. “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah: I am going to shake the heavens and the earth.