If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto my name, saith YY -TZvaot, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings: yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it to heart.
Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith YY -TZvaot. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
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.