8. Now go up into the hills, get timber, and rebuild the Temple; then I will be pleased and will be worshipped as I should be.
9. “You hoped for large harvests, but they turned out to be small. And when you brought the harvest home, I blew it away. Why did I do that? Because my Temple lies in ruins while every one of you is busy working on his own house.
10. That is why there is no rain and nothing can grow.
11. I have brought drought on the land — on its hills, cornfields, vineyards, and olive orchards — on every crop the ground produces, on people and animals, on everything you try to grow.”