7. Thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Consider your ways!
8. Go up the mountain and bring wood and build the house so that I may be pleased with it and honored,’ says Yahweh.
9. ‘You have looked for much, and look! It came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?’ declares Yahweh of hosts. ‘Because my house is desolate and you are running each to your own house!
10. Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld the dew and the earth has withheld its produce.
11. I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, on what the soil produces, on human beings and wild animals, and on all their labor.’ ”
12. Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the remnant of the people gave heed to the voice of Yahweh their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as Yahweh their God had sent him, and the people feared Yahweh.