“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.”
Let us test and examine our ways, and return to the Lord!
Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
You have sown much, and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; 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 hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may appear in my glory, says the Lord.
Pray now, consider what will come to pass from this day onward. Before a stone was placed upon a stone in the temple of the Lord,
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is not irksome to me, and is safe for you.