⁵ For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

⁴⁰ Let us make search and put our ways to the test, turning again to the Lord;

⁴ But let every man make test of his work, and then will his cause for glory be in himself only, and not in his neighbour.

⁵ Make a test of yourselves, if you are in the faith; make certain of yourselves. Or are you not conscious in yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you, if you are truly Christ's?

⁷ This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

¹² Then he said to me, Have no fear, Daniel; for from the first day when you gave your heart to getting wisdom and making yourself poor in spirit before your God, your words have come to his ears: and I have come because of your words.

¹⁴ Then they made answer and said before the king, Daniel, one of the prisoners of Judah, has no respect for you, O King, or for the order signed by you, but three times a day he makes his prayer to God.

⁴ And the man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes and give hearing with your ears, and take to heart everything I am going to let you see; for in order that I might let you see them, you have come here: and give an account of all you see to the children of Israel.

²⁸ Because he had fear and was turned away from all the wrong which he had done, life will certainly be his, death will not be his fate.

¹³ Take note of its strong walls, looking well at its fair buildings; so that you may give word of it to the generation which comes after.

²¹ And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his cattle in the field.

²³ Then Pharaoh went into his house, and did not take even this to heart.

¹⁷ But when he came to his senses, he said, What numbers of my father's servants have bread enough, and more, while I am near to death here through need of food!

¹⁵ And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:

¹⁶ How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.

¹⁷ And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.

¹⁸ And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.