Hageo 2:16

16 desde aquel tiempo, venía alguno a un montón de veinte medidas, y había solo diez; venía alguno al lagar para sacar cincuenta cántaros, y había solo 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 Entonces volvió a hablar Hageo y dijo: "Así es este pueblo y así es esta nación delante de mí"declara el SEÑOR"y así es toda obra de sus manos; y lo que aquí ofrecen, inmundo es.

15 "Ahora pues, considerad bien esto de hoy en adelante: antes que se pusiera piedra sobre piedra en el templo del SEÑOR,

16 desde aquel tiempo, venía alguno a un montón de veinte medidas, y había solo diez; venía alguno al lagar para sacar cincuenta cántaros, y había solo veinte.

17 "Os herí con viento abrasador, con añublo y con granizo en toda obra de vuestras manos; pero ninguno de vosotros se volvió a mí"declara el SEÑOR.

18 "Pero considerad bien esto desde hoy en adelante, desde el día veinticuatro del mes noveno; desde el día en que se pusieron los cimientos del templo del SEÑOR, considerad bien: