“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.
For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.
Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord,
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
