16When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty.


In Context

13 Then Haggai said, "If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?" "Yes," the priests replied, "it becomes defiled."

14 Then Haggai said, " 'So it is with this people and this nation in my sight,' declares the Lord . 'Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled.

15 " 'Now give careful thought to this from this day on -consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the Lord 's temple.

16 When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty.

17 I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not turn to me,' declares the Lord .

18 'From this day on, from this twenty- fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the Lord 's temple was laid. Give careful thought:

Haggai 2:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:16Since those [days] were, when [one] came to an heap of twenty [measures,] there were [but] ten: when [one] came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty [vessels] out of the press, there were [but] twenty.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:16Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures , there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty vessels , there were but twenty.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:16When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten: and you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they became twenty.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16before those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the vat to draw out fifty press-measures, there were but twenty.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:16Through all that time, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winefat for to draw out fifty vessels, there were but twenty.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press-vat to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:16From that time one hath come to a heap of twenty, And it hath been ten, He hath come unto the wine-fat to draw out fifty purahs, And it hath been twenty.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:16Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the fat press for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.