Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.
For rule `is' on rule, rule on rule, line on line, line on line, A little here, a little there,
We search our ways, and investigate, And turn back unto Jehovah.
And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.
Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.
Go up the mountain, and ye have brought in wood, And build the house, and I am pleased with it. And I am honoured, said Jehovah.
And now, lay `it', I pray you, to your heart, From this day, and onwards, Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah.
As to the rest, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord; the same things to write to you to me indeed is not tiresome, and for you `is' sure;