So says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways.
For precept must be on precept, precept on precept; line on line, line on line; here a little, there a little;
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
And now so says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on 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 dress, but no one is warm; and he who hires out himself hires himself for a bag full of holes.
Go up the mountain and bring wood, and build this House; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, says Jehovah.
And now, I ask you, set your heart on it; from this day and onward, before the placing of a stone on a stone in the temple of Jehovah;
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is indeed not grievous to me, but for you it is safe.