Hageo 2:15

15 »Ahora bien, desde hoy en adelante, reflexionen. Antes de que ustedes pusieran piedra sobre piedra en la casa del SEÑOR,

Hageo 2:15 Meaning and Commentary

Haggai 2:15

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward,
&c.] This being their case, and they so polluted with sin, particularly through their neglect of building the temple; they are most earnestly and importunately entreated to "lay" it "to their hearts", to ponder it in their minds, and thoroughly consider how it had fared with them from this twenty fourth day of the ninth month, in which the prophet was sent unto them to encourage them in their work, and upwards or backwards, for some years past: even from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the
Lord:
the foundation of the temple was laid quickly after the Jews returned from Babylon, upon the proclamation of Cyrus, ( Ezra 3:10 ) but, through difficulties and discouragements they met with, they desisted from the work, and went no further; a stone was not laid upon it; or, as the Targum, a row, or course upon course, until this time: and now all the intermediate space of time between the first laying the foundation of the temple, and their present going to work upon it, the prophet would have them take particular notice of; how it had been with them, as to their outward circumstances; whereby it would appear, they had sinned, and the Lord had been offended with them.

Hageo 2:15 In-Context

13 —Supongamos ahora —prosiguió Hageo— que una persona inmunda por el contacto de un cadáver toca cualquiera de estas cosas; ¿también ellas quedarán inmundas?—¡Sí! —contestaron los sacerdotes.

14 Entonces Hageo respondió:«¡Así es este pueblo!¡Así es para mí esta nación!—afirma el SEÑOR—.¡Así es cualquier obra de sus manos!¡y aun lo que allí ofrecen es inmundo!

15 »Ahora bien, desde hoy en adelante, reflexionen. Antes de que ustedes pusieran piedra sobre piedra en la casa del SEÑOR,

16 ¿cómo les iba? Cuando alguien se acercaba a un montón de grano esperando encontrar veinte medidas, solo hallaba diez; y si se iba al lagar esperando sacar cincuenta medidas de la artesa del mosto, solo sacaba veinte.

17 Herí sus campos con quemazón y con plaga, y con granizo toda obra de sus manos. Pero ustedes no se volvieron a mí —afirma el SEÑOR—.