Haggai 2:16 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁶ how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Through all that time [the harvests have not fulfilled expectations, for] when one has gone expecting to find a heap [of sheaves] of twenty measures, there were but ten; when he has gone to the wine vat to draw out fifty bucketfuls from the press, there were only twenty.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ 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.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ when one came to the granary for twenty measures, there were only ten; and when one came to the wine vat for fifty measures, there were only twenty.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ And now, consider in your hearts, from this day and beyond, before stone may be placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord:

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward, before there was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord.

Haggai 2:16 Cross References

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.

Jeremiah 48:33

Gladness and joy have been taken away from the fruitful land of Moab; I have stopped the wine from the winepresses; no one treads them with shouts of joy; the shouting is not the shout of joy.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and you that earn wages earn wages to put them into a bag with holes.

Haggai 2:15

But now, consider what will come to pass from this day on. Before a stone was placed upon a stone in the Lord’s temple,

Haggai 2:17

I struck you and every work of your hands with blight and mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not lay it to heart.