Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.
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 you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it 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, saith Jehovah.
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.