6 You have sown much, but have brought in little;you have eaten, but have not been satisfied;You have drunk, but have not become intoxicated;you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed;And the hired worker labors for a bag full of holes.
7 Thus says the Lord of hosts:Reflect on your experience!
8 Go up into the hill country;bring timber, and build the housethat I may be pleased with it,and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.
9 You expected much, but it came to little;and what you brought home, I blew away.Why is this?—oracle of the Lord of hosts—Because my house is the one which lies in ruins,while each of you runs to your own house.
10 Therefore, the heavens withheld the dew,and the earth its yield.
11 And I have proclaimed a devastating heatupon the land and upon the mountains,Upon the grain, the new wine, and the olive oil,upon all that the ground brings forth;Upon human being and beast alike,and upon all they produce.
12 Then Zerubbabel, son of Shealtiel, and the high priest Joshua, son of Jehozadak, and all the remnant of the people obeyed the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, since the Lord their God had sent him; thus the people feared the Lord.