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Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
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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 you that earn wages earn wages to put them into a bag with holes.
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Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
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Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored, says the Lord.
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You have looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses.
New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. (New Revised Standard)
