⁴ Now the city was wide and large; but the people were few therein, and the houses were not built.

¹² Those who shall be of you shall build the old waste places; you shall raise up the foundations of many generations; and you shall be called The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

⁴ "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

⁵ Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.

⁶ You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."

³³ But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.