Haggai 1:2-11

English Standard Version

² “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.” ³ Then the word of the Lord came ^(A)by the hand of Haggai the prophet, ^4 (B)“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while ^(C)this house lies in ruins? ⁵ Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(D)Consider your ways. ^6 (E)You have sown much, and harvested little. ^(F)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 ^(G)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

⁷ “Thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(H)Consider your ways. ⁸ Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that ^(I)I may take pleasure in it and that ^(J)I may be glorified, says the Lord. ^9 (K)You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, ^(L)I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house ^(M)that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. ¹⁰ Therefore ^(N)the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. ¹¹ And ^(O)I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on ^(P)the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and ^(Q)on all their labors.”