Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Set your heart on your ways!
For it must be ‘precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little.’
Let us examine and test our ways, and let us return to Adonai.
But now,” thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Set your heart on your ways!
You sowed much but bring in little. You eat but are never satisfied. You drink but not enough to get filled. You put on clothes but no one is warm. And whoever earns wages works for a bag full of holes.”
Go up to the hills, bring wood and build the House. Then I will delight in it and I will be glorified,” says Adonai.
But now, set your heart back from this day onward. Before stone was set upon stone in the Temple of Adonai,
Finally, my brothers and sisters, rejoice in the Lord! To keep writing the same things to you is not troublesome for me—but for you it is a safeguard.
