Haggai 2:15 {16}
Good News Translation
The LORD says, "Can't you see what has happened to you? Before you started to rebuild the Temple,

New Revised Standard Version
But now, consider what will come to pass from this day on. Before a stone was placed upon a stone in the LORD’s temple,

Contemporary English Version
But from now on, things will get better. Before you started laying the foundation for the temple,

New American Bible
Now reflect, from this day forward—before you set stone to stone in the temple of the LORD,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward, before there was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward, before there was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord.

consider.

Haggai 2:18 Set your hearts from this day, and henceforward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month: from the day that the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid, and lay it up in your hearts.

Haggai 1:5,7 And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways. . . .

Psalm 107:43 Who is wise, and will keep these things; and will understand the mercies of the Lord?

Isaiah 5:12 The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Hosea 14:9 Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know these things? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall in them.

Malachi 3:8-11 Shall a man afflict God, for you afflict me. And you have said: Wherein do we afflict thee? in tithes and in firstfruits. . . .

Romans 6:21 What fruit therefore had you then in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of them is death.

1 Corinthians 11:31 But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

from before.

Ezra 3:10 And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of David king of Israel.

Ezra 4:24 Then the work of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem was interrupted, and ceased till the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

Context
Blessings for a Defiled People
14And Haggai answered, and said: So is this people, and so is this nation before my face, saith the Lord, and so is all the work of their hands: and all that they have offered there, shall be defiled. 15And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward, before there was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord.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.…
Cross References
Ezra 3:10
And when the masons laid the foundations of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their ornaments with trumpets: and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise God by the hands of David king of Israel.

Ezra 4:24
Then the work of the house of the Lord in Jerusalem was interrupted, and ceased till the second year of the reign of Darius king of the Persians.

Haggai 1:5
And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways.

Haggai 1:7
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways:

Haggai 2:16
When 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.

Haggai 2:18
Set your hearts from this day, and henceforward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month: from the day that the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid, and lay it up in your hearts.

Zechariah 8:10
For before those days there was no hire for men, neither was there hire for beasts, neither was there peace to him that came in, nor to him that went out, because of the tribulation: and I let all men go every one against his neighbour.

Haggai 2:14
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