"They bend their tongue,as their bow, for falsehood.They have grown strong in the land,but not for truth;for they proceed from evil to evil,and they don't know me," says The LORD.

You have not gone up into the gaps or built up the wall for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in The LORD's day.

"'"How weak is your heart," says the Lord God, "since you do all these things, the work of an impudent prostitute;

"Ephraim, what shall I do to you?Judah, what shall I do to you?For your love is like a morning cloud,and like the dew that disappears early.

Their heart is divided.Now they will be found guilty.He will demolish their altars.He will destroy their sacred stones.

2. "This is what the LORD of Hosts says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for The LORD's house to be built.'"

3. Then The LORD's word came by Haggai, the prophet, saying,

4. "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

5. Now therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider your ways.

6. You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."

7. This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Consider your ways.

8. Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says The LORD.

9. "You looked for much, and, behold, 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 waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

10. Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

11. I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground produces, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands."