15. Look at what was happening to you before you began to lay the foundation of the lord’s Temple.
16. When you hoped for a twenty-bushel crop, you harvested only ten. When you expected to draw fifty gallons from the winepress, you found only twenty.
17. I sent blight and mildew and hail to destroy everything you worked so hard to produce. Even so, you refused to return to me, says the lord.
18. “Think about this eighteenth day of December, the day when the foundation of the lord’s Temple was laid. Think carefully.