Haggai 1:10–13

10 So on your account,E

the skies have withheld the dew

and the land its crops.i

11 I have summoned a drought

on the fields and the hills,

on the grain, new wine, fresh oil,

and whatever the ground yields,

on people and animals,

and on all that your hands produce.”

THE PEOPLE’S RESPONSE

12 Then Zerubbabelj son of Shealtiel, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the entire remnant of the peoplek obeyed the Lord their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the Lord their God had sent him. So the people feared the Lord.l

13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, delivered the Lord’s message to the people: “I am with youm—this is the Lord’s declaration.”