¹⁸ Consider from this day on, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider:^{(A) 19} Is there any seed left in the barn? Do the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree still yield nothing? From this day on I will bless you.”

⁷ “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.

²⁸ Because they considered and turned away from all the transgressions that they had committed, they shall surely live; they shall not die.

¹¹ Now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus direct our way to you.

¹⁷ But when he came to his senses he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired hands have bread enough and to spare, but here I am dying of hunger! ¹⁸ I will get up and go to my father, and I will say to him, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and before you;

¹⁵ But now, consider what will come to pass from this day on. Before a stone was placed upon a stone in the Lord’s temple,^(A)