5. Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways!
6. “You have sown much, and bring in little;You eat, but do not have enough;You drink, but you are not filled with drink;You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;And he who earns wages,Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”
7. Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways!
8. Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord.
9. “You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.