7Thussays the LORD of hosts, "aConsider your ways !
8"Go up to the bmountains, bringwood and 1rebuild the ctemple, that I may be 2pleased with it and be 3glorified," says the LORD.
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"4You look for much, but behold, it comes to little ; when you bring it home, I 5blow it away. Why ?" declares the LORD of hosts, "Because of My housewhich6lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.
10"Therefore , because of you the 7sky has withhelddits dew and the earth has withheld its produce.
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"I called for a 8drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the newwine, on the oil, on what the groundproduces, on 9men, on cattle, and on 10all the labor of eyour hands."
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