Thus says the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not troublesome, but for you it is safe.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he that earns wages earns 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, says the LORD.
And now, I pray you, consider from this day onward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
