⁹ “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little.^(A) What you brought home, I blew^(B) away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin,^(C) while each of you is busy with your own house.

¹² “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘In this place, desolate^(A) and without people or animals^(B)—in all its towns there will again be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.^(C)