Haggai 1:2-11

2Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.” 3Then the word of the Lord came aby the hand of Haggai the prophet, 4 b“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while cthis house lies in ruins? 5Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: dConsider your ways. 6 eYou have sown much, and harvested little. fYou eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who gearns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

7Thus says the Lord of hosts: hConsider your ways. 8Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that iI may take pleasure in it and that jI may be glorified, says the Lord. 9 kYou looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, lI blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house mthat lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. 10Therefore nthe heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 11And oI have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on pthe grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and qon all their labors.”

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