^{15 Ref} 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:

^{16 Ref} 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.

^{17 Ref} 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.

^{18 Ref} 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.