“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘This people says, “The time has not come, even the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”’”

“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate?”

from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

Then the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,