4. “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
5. Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
6. You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
7. “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
8. Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.