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The LORD of armies says this: "Consider your ways!

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

"Go up to the mountains, bring wood, and rebuild the temple, that I may be pleased with it and be honored," says the LORD.

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord .

"You start an ambitious project, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?" declares the LORD of armies. "It is because of My house which remains desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.

Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

"Therefore, because of you the sky has withheld its dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

"And I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on mankind, on cattle, and on all the products of the labor of your hands."

And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.