Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lays waste?

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of LORD.

Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth [month], since the day that the foundation of LORD's temple was laid, consider it.