(A)“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while (B)this house lies in ruins? Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: (C)Consider your ways. (D)You have sown much, and harvested little. (E)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 (F)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: (G)Consider your ways. Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that (H)I may take pleasure in it and that (I)I may be glorified, says the Lord.

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