Thus said Jehovah of armies, saying, This people said the time was not come, the time of the house of Jehovah to be built

Ye sowed much and brought in little; eating and not being satisfied; ye drank, and not drinking to the full; putting on clothing, and not being warm to him; and he hiring out, hires out for a purse perforated.

Who being left among you who saw this house in its first glory? and how see ye it now? Is it not in your eyes like it as nothing?

The word which I cut out with you in bringing you forth out of Egypt, and my spirit stood in the midst of you; ye shall not fear.

Is the seed yet in the storehouse? and even the vine and the fig tree, and the pomegranate and the olive tree bore not: from this day will I praise.