Haggai 2:16-20
Haggai 2:16-20 TPT
Stop and remember what condition you were in. You would come expecting to scoop twenty measures of grain but find only ten. You would come expecting to draw fifty measures of wine from a vat but find only twenty. I struck the produce of your labor by sending hail, hot desert winds to wither your grain, and damp winds to make it rot. Yet you still would not return to me —declares YAHWEH. “Today is the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the people resumed the building of my temple. So be intentional from today forward. The seed is still in the storehouse, isn’t it? Until now, the grapevines, fig trees, pomegranate and olive trees have not produced a harvest, but from now on, I will certainly bless you, and your harvest will be plentiful.” On that same day, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the word of YAHWEH happened a second time to Haggai, as follows