SEV Biblia, Chapter 2:16
Antes que fuesen estas cosas , venían al montón de veinte efas , y había diez; venían al lagar para sacar cincuenta c ntaros del lagar, y había veinte.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Haggai 2:16
Verse 16. Since those days were] I have shown my displeasure against you, by sending blasting and mildew; and so poor have been your crops that a heap of corn which should have produced twenty measures produced only ten; and that quantity of grapes which in other years would have produced fifty measures, through their poverty, smallness, &c., produced only twenty. And this has been the case ever since the first stone was laid in this ternple; for your hearts were not right with me, and therefore I blasted you in all the labours of your hands; and yet ye have not turned to me, ver. 17.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. Since those [days] were , etc.] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-19 - Many spoiled this good work, by going about it with unholy hearts an hands, and were likely to gain no advantage by it. The sum of these tw rules of the law is, that sin is more easily learned from others tha holiness. The impurity of their hearts and lives shall make the work of their hands, and all their offerings, unclean before God. The case is the same with us. When employed in any good work, we should watch ove ourselves, lest we render it unclean by our corruptions. When we begi to make conscience of duty to God, we may expect his blessing; an whoso is wise will understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. God wil curse the blessings of the wicked, and make bitter the prosperity of the careless; but he will sweeten the cup of affliction to those wh diligently serve him.
Original Hebrew
מהיותם 1961 בא 935 אל 413 ערמת 6194 עשׂרים 6242 והיתה 1961 עשׂרה 6235 בא 935 אל 413 היקב 3342 לחשׂף 2834 חמשׁים 2572 פורה 6333 והיתה 1961 עשׂרים׃ 6242
