Thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in Lord. To write the same things to you is really not irksome to me, but safe for you.
For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.
Ye have sown much, and bring in little. Ye eat, but ye have not enough. Ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink. Ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm. And he who earns wages earns wages [to put] into a bag with holes.
Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house. And I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says LORD.
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of LORD.
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to LORD.
