4Is it time for you -- you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?
5And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.
6Ye 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.
7Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.
8Go 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.
9Looking 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,
10Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.
