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Thussays the LORD of hosts, "[a]Consider** your ways!
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"Go up to the [b]mountains, bringwood and 1rebuild the [c]temple, 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.
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"Therefore*, because of you the 7sky has withheld[d]its 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 [e]your hands."