^{14 Ref} Then Haggai answered, "'So is this people, and so is this nation before me,' says Yahweh; 'and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.

^{15 Ref} Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.

^{16 Ref} Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

^{17 Ref} I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.