^{5 Ref} And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.

^{6 Ref} Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

^{7 Ref} Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.

^{8 Ref} Go up the mountain, and ye have brought in wood, And build the house, and I am pleased with it. And I am honoured, said Jehovah.

^{9 Ref} Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought `it' home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running -- each to his house,