Thus saith Yahweh of hosts; Consider your ways.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
Now therefore thus saith Yahweh 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 honoured, saith Yahweh.
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Yahweh:
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in Yahweh. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.
