In RUINS, a waste, desolate — from the root ch-r-b (חרב), which carries both 'lie in ruins' and 'be dry.' Haggai builds his whole first chapter on the double meaning: God's house lies charev, 'a ruin' (1:4, 9), so God calls a chorev — a DROUGHT, a drying-up — 'upon the land' (1:11). Same three consonants: the desolation the people left on the temple is returned, letter for letter, on their fields. Because you left my house charev, I made your land chorev. → first discussed at Haggai 1:4