Haggai 2:14-17 Then answered Haggai, and said: 'So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.

JPS_ASV_Byz⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ Then answered Haggai, and said: 'So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean. ¹⁵ And now, I pray you, consider from this day and forward - before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD, 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 press-measures, there were but twenty; ¹⁷ I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to Me, saith the LORD -