rsv Haggai:1:2-11
rsv@Haggai:1:2 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: This people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD."
rsv@Haggai:1:3 @ Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet,
rsv@Haggai:1:4 @ "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
rsv@Haggai:1:5 @ Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
rsv@Haggai:1:6 @ You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.
rsv@Haggai:1:7 @ "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
rsv@Haggai:1:8 @ Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may appear in my glory, says the LORD.
rsv@Haggai:1:9 @ You have looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while you busy yourselves each with his own house.
rsv@Haggai:1:10 @ Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.
rsv@Haggai:1:11 @ And I have called for a drought upon the land and the hills, upon the grain, the new wine, the oil, upon what the ground brings forth, upon men and cattle, and upon all their labors."