2 Thus speaketh the Lord of the hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not yet come, the time to build the house of the Lord.
3 Then came the word of the Lord by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 Do you have time, all of you, to dwell in your panelled houses, and this house is deserted?
5 Now therefore thus hath the Lord of the hosts said; Consider your ways.
6 Ye have sown much and bring in little; ye eat, but ye are not filled; ye drink, but ye are not satisfied; ye clothe yourselves, but you are not warm; and he that is a hireling receives his wages in a bag with holes.
7 Thus hath the Lord of the hosts said, Consider your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house; and I will place my will in her, and I will be glorified, said the Lord.