Ageu 2:16

16 Quando alguém chegava a um monte de trigo procurando vinte medidas, havia apenas dez. Quando alguém ia ao depósito de vinho para tirar cinquenta medidas, só encontrava 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 Ageu transmitiu esta resposta do SENHOR: “É o que acontece com este povo e com esta nação. Tudo o que fazem e tudo o que me oferecem é impuro.

15 “Agora prestem atenção; de hoje em diante reconsiderem. Em que condições vocês viviam antes que se colocasse pedra sobre pedra no templo do SENHOR?

16 Quando alguém chegava a um monte de trigo procurando vinte medidas, havia apenas dez. Quando alguém ia ao depósito de vinho para tirar cinquenta medidas, só encontrava vinte.

17 Eu destruí todo o trabalho das mãos de vocês, com mofo, ferrugem e granizo, mas vocês não se voltaram para mim”, declara o SENHOR.

18 “A partir de hoje, vigésimo quarto dia do nono mês, atentem para o dia em que os fundamentos do templo do SENHOR foram lançados. Reconsiderem: