¹¹ Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)“Do not pray for this people, for their good.

² “Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.” ’ ”

¹⁴ Then Haggai answered and said, ^(A)“ ‘So is this people, and so is this nation before Me,’ says the Lord, ‘and so is every work of their hands; and what they offer there is unclean.