MLV(i)
4 Is it a time for you* yourselves to dwell in your* paneled houses while this house lies waste?
5 Now therefore Jehovah of hosts says thus: Consider your* ways. 6 You* have sown much and bring in little. You* eat, but you* have not enough. You* drink, but you* are not filled with drink. You* clothe yourselves, but there is none warm. And he who earns wages earns wages to put into a bag with holes.
7 Jehovah of hosts says thus: Consider your* ways. 8 Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house. And I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified, says Jehovah. 9 You* looked for much, and behold, it came to little and when you* brought it home, I blew upon it.
Why? says Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while you* run each man to his own house. 10 Therefore for your* sake the heavens withhold the dew and the earth withholds its fruit. 11 And I called for a drought upon the land and upon the mountains and upon the grain and upon the new wine and upon the oil and upon what the ground brings forth and upon men and upon cattle and upon all the labor of the hands.
5 Now therefore Jehovah of hosts says thus: Consider your* ways. 6 You* have sown much and bring in little. You* eat, but you* have not enough. You* drink, but you* are not filled with drink. You* clothe yourselves, but there is none warm. And he who earns wages earns wages to put into a bag with holes.
7 Jehovah of hosts says thus: Consider your* ways. 8 Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build the house. And I will take pleasure in it and I will be glorified, says Jehovah. 9 You* looked for much, and behold, it came to little and when you* brought it home, I blew upon it.
Why? says Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while you* run each man to his own house. 10 Therefore for your* sake the heavens withhold the dew and the earth withholds its fruit. 11 And I called for a drought upon the land and upon the mountains and upon the grain and upon the new wine and upon the oil and upon what the ground brings forth and upon men and upon cattle and upon all the labor of the hands.