⁴ Now the town was wide and great: but the people in it were only a small number, and the houses had not been put up.

¹² And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

⁴ Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

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

⁶ Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

³³ But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.