and he said, “This is what the Lord says, ‘Make many cisterns in this valley,’

Your plunder disappears as if locusts were eating it; they swarm over it like locusts!

He finished building the temple and covered it with rafters and boards made of cedar.

The leading men of the cities send their servants for water. They go to the cisterns, but they do not find any water there. They return with their containers empty. Disappointed and dismayed, they bury their faces in their hands.