2. Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying,
3. Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4. Is it time for you, yourselves, to dwell in your paneled houses, and this house lie in ruins?
5. Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts;
6. You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he that earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.
7. Thus says the LORD of hosts;
8. Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says the LORD.
9. You looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow it away. Why?
10. Therefore the heavens over you withholds the dew, and the earth withholds her fruit.
11. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the grain, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground brings forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labor of the hands.
12. Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.