Hag 1:6-11, 2:16-18 | ESV | STEP | You have sown much , and harvested little . You 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 earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes .

6 ^aYou have sown much, and harvested little. ^bYou 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 ^cearns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

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

Haggai 2:16-18

16 how did you fare? ⁿWhen ^{▼▼Probable reading (compare Septuagint); Hebrew Lord, since they were. When} one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty. 17 ^pI struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, ^qyet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. 18 ^rConsider from this day onward, ^sfrom the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since ^tthe day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, ^uconsider: