American Standard Version
"And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah. "
— Haggai 2:15, American Standard Version
“And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:”
“Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.”
“Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, before one stone was laid on another in the LORD’s temple.”
“And 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.”
“And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:”
“And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:”
If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any food, shall it become holy? And the priests answered and said, No.
Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.
Then answered Haggai and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, saith Jehovah; and so is every work of their hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.
Through 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.
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah.
Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Jehovah’s temple was laid, consider it.