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"This is what the LORD of armies ^(F1)says: 'This people says, "The time has not come, the time for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt."'"

Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

"Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house remains ^(C1)desolate?"

Now then, the LORD of armies says this: "^(F1)Consider your ways!

"You have ^(C1)sown much, only to ^(F1)harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but there is not enough for ^(F2)anyone to get warm; and the one who earns, earns wages to put into a money bag full of holes."

The LORD of armies says this: "^(F1)Consider your ways!

"Go up to the ^(F1)mountains, bring wood, and ^(C1)rebuild the ^(F2)temple, that I may be ^(C2)pleased with it and be ^(C3)honored," says the LORD.

"^(C1)You ^(F1)start an ambitious project, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I ^(C2)blow it away. Why?" declares the LORD of armies. "It is because of My house which ^(C3)remains desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.

"Therefore, because of you the ^(C1)sky has withheld ^(F1)its dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.

"And I called for a ^(C1)drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on ^(C2)mankind, on cattle, and on ^(C3)all the products of the labor of ^(F1)your hands."