Haggai 1:7-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
7 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
Reflect on your experience!
8 Go up into the hill country;
bring timber, and build the house
that I may be pleased with it,
and that I may be glorified,[a] says the Lord.
9 You expected much, but it came to little;
and what you brought home, I blew away.
Why is this?—oracle of the Lord[b] of hosts—
Because my house is the one which lies in ruins,
while each of you runs to your own house.
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