Leeser(i)
4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth in ruins?
5 Now therefore, thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Direct your heart unto your ways.
6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but it doth not satisfy hunger; ye drink, but it doth not appease thirst; ye clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he that earneth something earneth it for a bag with holes.
7 Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Direct your heart to your ways.
8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house: that I may take pleasure in it, and be glorified, saith the Lord.
9 Till now ye looked for much, and lo, it came to be little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. For what cause? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lieth in ruins, while ye run every man unto his own house.
10 Therefore do the heavens for your sake withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth her products.
11 And I called for a drought over the land, and over the mountains, and over the corn, and over the new wine, and over the oil, and over what the ground bringeth forth, and over men, and over cattle, and over all the labor of the hands.