Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
For it is 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 turn again to the LORD.
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways,
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth 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, saith the LORD.
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, 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 irksome, but for you it is safe.