Thus says the Lord of hosts: Reflect on your experience!
For he says, ‘Command on command, command on command, rule on rule, rule on rule, here a little, there a little!’”
Let us search and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
Now thus says the Lord of hosts: Reflect on your experience!
You have sown much, but have brought in little; you have eaten, but have not been satisfied; You have drunk, but have not become intoxicated; you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed; And the hired worker labors for a bag full of holes.
Go up into the hill country; bring timber, and build the house that I may be pleased with it, and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.
Now reflect, from this day forward—before you set stone to stone in the temple of the Lord,
Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no burden for me but is a safeguard for you. Against Legalistic Teachers.