15 Now then, ^aconsider from this day onward.¹ Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord, 16 how did you fare? ^bWhen² 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. 17 I struck you and all the products of your toil with ^cblight and with mildew and with hail, ^dyet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. 18 Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the ^efoundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider: 19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the ^fvine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will ^gbless you.”