Aggeo 2:16

16 Durante tutto quel tempo, quand’uno veniva a un mucchio di venti misure, non ve n’eran che dieci; quand’uno veniva al tino per cavarne cinquanta misure, non ve n’eran che venti.

Aggeo 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.

Aggeo 2:16 In-Context

14 Allora Aggeo replicò e disse: Così è questo popolo, così è questa nazione nel mio cospetto, dice l’Eterno; e così è tutta l’opera delle loro mani; e tutto quello che m’offrono là è impuro.

15 Ed ora, ponete ben mente a ciò ch’è avvenuto fino a questo giorno, prima che fosse messa pietra su pietra nel tempio dell’Eterno!

16 Durante tutto quel tempo, quand’uno veniva a un mucchio di venti misure, non ve n’eran che dieci; quand’uno veniva al tino per cavarne cinquanta misure, non ve n’eran che venti.

17 Io vi colpii col carbonchio, colla ruggine, con la grandine, in tutta l’opera delle vostre mani; ma voi non tornaste a me, dice l’Eterno.

18 Ponete ben mente a ciò ch’è avvenuto fino a questo giorno, fino al ventiquattresimo giorno del nono mese, dal giorno che il tempio dell’Eterno fu fondato; ponetevi ben mente!