Ageu 2:16

16 quando alguém vinha a um montão de trigo de vinte medidas, havia somente dez; quando vinha ao lagar para tirar cinqüenta, havia somente vinte.

Ageu 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.

Ageu 2:16 In-Context

14 Ao que respondeu Ageu, dizendo: Assim é este povo, e assim é esta nação diante de mim, diz o Senhor; assim é toda a obra das suas mãos; e tudo o que ali oferecem imundo é.

15 Agora considerai o que acontece desde aquele dia. Antes que se lançasse pedra sobre pedra no templo do Senhor,

16 quando alguém vinha a um montão de trigo de vinte medidas, havia somente dez; quando vinha ao lagar para tirar cinqüenta, havia somente vinte.

17 Feri-vos com mangra, e com ferrugem, e com saraiva, em todas as obras das vossas mãos; e não houve entre vós quem voltasse para mim, diz o Senhor.

18 Considerai, pois, eu vos rogo, desde este dia em diante, desde o vigésimo quarto dia do mês nono, desde o dia em que se lançaram os alicerces do templo do Senhor, sim, considerai essas coisas.