Haggai 1:5–11

⁵Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thoughtⁿ to your ways. ⁶You have planted much, but harvested little.^o You eat, but never have enough.^p You drink, but never have your fill.^q You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages,^r only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

⁷This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought^s to your ways. ⁸Go up into the mountains and bring down timber^t and build my house, so that I may take pleasure^u in it and be honored,^v” says the Lord. ⁹“You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little.^w What you brought home, I blew^x away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin,^y while each of you is busy with your own house. ¹⁰Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld^z their dew^a and the earth its crops.^{b 11}I called for a drought^c on the fields and the mountains,^d on the grain, the new wine,^e the olive oil^f and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.^g”