13. Then Haggai said, “Suppose someone has touched a dead body and is considered unacceptable to worship God. If that person touches these foods, would they become unclean?”“Of course they would,” the priests answered.
14. So the Lord told Haggai to say:That's how it is with this entire nation. Everything you do and every sacrifice you offer is unacceptable to me.
15. But from now on, things will get better. Before you started laying the foundation for the temple,
16. you recalled what life was like in the past. When you wanted two hundred kilogrammes of wheat, there were only a hundred, and when you wanted fifty jars of wine, there were only twenty.