^{14 Ref} Then Haggai said, So is this people and so is this nation before me, says the Lord; and so is every work of their hands; and the offering they give there is unclean.

^{15 Ref} And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:

^{16 Ref} How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.

^{17 Ref} And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.