Hageo 2:16

16 Antes que fueran estas cosas, venían al montón de veinte efas, y había diez; venían al lagar para sacar cincuenta cántaros del lagar, y había veinte

Hageo 2:16 Meaning and Commentary

Haggai 2:16

Since those [days] were
From the time the foundation of the temple was laid, unto the time they began to work again, which was a space of about fifteen or sixteen years: when [one] came to an heap of twenty [measures], there were [but]
ten;
when the husbandman having gathered in his corn, and who was generally a good judge of what it would yield, came to a heap of it on his corn floor, either of sheaves not threshed, or grain not winnowed, and expected it would have produced at least twenty measures, seahs, or bushels; afterward it was threshed and winnowed, to his great disappointment he had but ten out of it; there were so much straw and chaff, and so little grain; or when he came to a heap of grain, wheat, or barley, in his granary, where he thought he should have twenty bushels of it; but when he had measured it, proved but ten; being either stolen by thieves, or eaten by vermin; rather the latter: when [one] came to the wine vat for to draw out fifty [vessels] out
of the press, there were [but] twenty;
by the quantity of grapes which he put into the press to tread and squeeze, he expected to have had fifty measures, or baths, or hogsheads of wine; but, instead of that, had but twenty; the bunches were so thin, or the berries so bad: there was a greater decrease and deficiency in the wine than in the grain.

Hageo 2:16 In-Context

14 Y respondió Hageo y dijo: Así es este pueblo, y esta gente, delante de mí, dijo el SEÑOR; y asimismo toda obra de sus manos; y todo lo que aquí ofrecen es inmundo

15 Ahora, pues, poned vuestro corazón desde este día en adelante. Antes que pusieran piedra sobre piedra en el Templo del SEÑOR

16 Antes que fueran estas cosas, venían al montón de veinte efas, y había diez; venían al lagar para sacar cincuenta cántaros del lagar, y había veinte

17 Os herí con viento solano, y con tizoncillo, y con granizo a vosotros, y en toda obra de vuestras manos; mas no os convertisteis a mí, dijo el SEÑOR

18 Pues, poned ahora, vuestro corazón desde este día en adelante, desde el día veinticuatro del noveno mes, que es desde el día que se echó el cimiento al Templo del SEÑOR; poned vuestro corazón