World English Bible
Haggai 2:15
“Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.”
Verse in context — Haggai 2
13
Then Haggai said, "If one who is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, will it be unclean?" The priests answered, "It will be unclean.
14
Then Haggai answered, "'So is this people, and so is this nation before me,' says Yahweh; 'and so is every work of their hands. That which they offer there is unclean.
15
Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.
16
Through 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.
17
I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.