Hāgāishū 2:16

16 Zaì nà yīqiè rìzi , yǒu rén lái dào gǔ duī , xiǎng dé èr shí dòu , zhǐ dé le shí dǒu . yǒu rén lái dào jiǔ chí , xiǎng dé wǔ shí Tǒng , zhǐ dé le èr shí Tǒng .

Hāgāishū 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.

Hāgāishū 2:16 In-Context

14 Yúshì hǎ gāi shuō , Yēhéhuá shuō , zhè mín zhè guó , zaì wǒ miànqián yĕ shì rúcǐ . tāmen shǒu xià de gèyàng gōngzuò , dōu shì rúcǐ . tāmen zaì tán shang suǒ xiàn de yĕ shì rúcǐ .

15 Xiànzaì nǐmen yào zhuī xiǎng , cǐ rì yǐqián , Yēhéhuá de diàn , méiyǒu yī kuaì shítou lĕi zaì shítou shang de guāngjǐng .

16 Zaì nà yīqiè rìzi , yǒu rén lái dào gǔ duī , xiǎng dé èr shí dòu , zhǐ dé le shí dǒu . yǒu rén lái dào jiǔ chí , xiǎng dé wǔ shí Tǒng , zhǐ dé le èr shí Tǒng .

17 Zaì nǐmen shǒu xià de gèyàng gōngzuò shang , wǒ yǐ hàn fēng , méi làn , bīngbaó , gōngjī nǐmen . nǐmen réng bù guī xiàng wǒ . zhè shì Yēhéhuá shuō de .

18 Nǐmen yào zhuī xiǎng cǐ rì yǐqián , jiù shì cóng zhè jiǔ yuè èr shí sì rì qǐ , zhuī xiǎng dào lì Yēhéhuá diàn gēnjī de rìzi .