The Lord of hosts saith these things, Put ye your hearts on your ways.
For why command thou, command thou again; command thou, command thou again; abide thou, abide thou again; abide thou, abide thou again; a little there, a little there.
Search we our ways, and seek we, and turn we again to the Lord.
And now the Lord God of hosts saith these things, Put ye your hearts on your ways.
Ye have sown much, and brought in little; ye have eaten, and ye be not [ful] filled; ye have drunk, and ye be not full of drink; ye covered you, and ye be not made hot; and he that gathered hires sent those into a sack holed, either broken.
Go ye up into the mountain, bear ye trees, and build ye an house; and it shall be acceptable to me, and I shall be glorified, saith the Lord.
And now put ye this on your hearts, from this day and above, before that a stone on a stone was put in the temple of the Lord,
Henceforward, my brethren, have ye joy in the Lord. To write to you the same things, to me it is not slow, and to you it is necessary.