¹⁴ Then Haggai answered and said, ^(A)“ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,’ says the Lord, ‘and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.

^15 (A)To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and unbelieving nothing is pure; but even their mind and conscience are defiled.

⁴ “Is it ^(A)time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this ^[a]temple to lie in ruins?” ⁵ Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: ^(B)“Consider your ways!

⁷ Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! ⁸ Go up to the ^(E)mountains and bring wood and build the ^[b]temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord. ^9 (F)“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, ^(G)I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house. ¹⁰ Therefore ^(H)the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. ¹¹ For I ^(I)called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on ^(J)all the labor of your hands.”

²³ but ^(A)others save ^[a]with fear, ^(B)pulling them out of the ^[b]fire, hating even ^(C)the garment defiled by the flesh.