A lover of sin rejoices in strife,

Prepare your works for your going forth, and prepare yourself for the field; and come after me, and you shall rebuild your house.

Woe [to them] that join house to house, and add field to field, that they may take away something of their neighbor's; will you dwell alone upon the land?

For these things have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts; for though many houses should be built, many and fair houses shall be desolate, and there shall be no inhabitants in them.

And all the people of Ephraim, and those that dwelt in Samaria shall know, who say in their pride and lofty heart,

the king answered and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power, for the honor of my glory?

Because one will say, Edom has been overthrown, but let us return and rebuild the desolate places; thus says the Lord Almighty, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall be called The borders of wickedness, and, The people against whom the Lord has set Himself forever.

For which of you, intending to build a tower, [does] not first sit down and count up the cost, whether he has the resources to complete it?

Lest perhaps after he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all those who see it begin to mock him,

that the king said to Nathan the prophet, Behold now, I live in a house of cedar, and the ark of the Lord dwells in the midst of a tent.

And he lined the great house with cedar wood, and gilded it with pure gold, and carved upon it palm trees and chains.

The beams of our house are cedars, our ceilings are of cypress.

Is it time for you to dwell in your paneled houses, whereas Our house is desolate?