Haggai 1:9-11

Good News Translation

⁹ “You hoped for large harvests, but they turned out to be small. And when you brought the harvest home, I blew it away.^[a] Why did I do that? Because my Temple lies in ruins while every one of you is busy working on your own house. ¹⁰ That is why there is no rain and nothing can grow. ¹¹ I have brought drought on the land—on its hills, grainfields, vineyards, and olive orchards—on every crop the ground produces, on people and animals, on everything you try to grow.”