Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways.
For He says, ‘Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.’ ”
Let us search and try our ways, and return to the Lord!
Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways.
You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.
Go up to the mountain and bring wood and rebuild the house, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the Lord.
Now consider from this day onward: from before stone was laid upon stone in the temple of the Lord,
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me, and it is reassuring for you.
