⁵ Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways and thoughtfully reflect on your conduct! ⁶ You have planted much, but you harvest little; you eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you do not have enough to be intoxicated; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns wages earns them just to put them in a bag with holes in it [because God has withheld His blessing].”

⁷ Thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways and thoughtfully reflect on your conduct!