Thus says the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Let us search and examine our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he who 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 and onward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not burdensome, but for you it is safe.
