^{14 Ref} Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

^{15 Ref} And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.

^{16 Ref} Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty `measures', there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty `vessels', there were but twenty.

^{17 Ref} I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye `turned' not to me, saith Jehovah.