Thus says the Lord of hosts:

¹⁶ since those days, ^(A)when one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, there were but twenty. ^17 (B)I struck you with blight and mildew and hail ^(C)in all the labors of your hands; ^(D)yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the Lord.

⁷ Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! ⁸ Go up to the ^(C)mountains and bring wood and build the ^[a]temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord. ^9 (D)“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, ^(E)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 ^(F)the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. ¹¹ For I ^(G)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 ^(H)all the labor of your hands.”