Haggai 1:1-11

1In the 1second year of Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the Lord came by the prophet 2Haggai to 3Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, 4governor of Judah, and to 5Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2“Thus says the Lord of 6hosts, ‘This people says, “The time has not come, even the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”’” 3Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house 7lies desolate?” 5Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “8Consider your ways! 6You have 9sown much, but 10harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is 11not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes.”

7Thus says the Lord of hosts, “12Consider your ways! 8Go up to the 13mountains, bring wood and 14rebuild the 15temple, that I may be 16pleased with it and be 17glorified,” says the Lord. 9“18You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I 19blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of hosts, “Because of My house which 20lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house. 10Therefore, because of you the 21sky has withheld 22its dew and the earth has withheld its produce. 11I called for a 23drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on 24men, on cattle, and on 25all the labor of 26your hands.”