You have sown much, but brought in little; you have eaten, and are not satisfied; you have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, you have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered [them] into a bag full of holes.

[ 2:17] When you cast into the grain bin twenty measures of barley, and there were [only] ten measures of barley: and you went to the vat to draw out fifty measures, and there were [but] twenty.

[ 2:18] I struck you with blight and with mildew, and all the works of your hands with hail; yet you returned not to Me, says the Lord.

Because you have forsaken God your Savior, and have not been mindful of the Lord your Helper; therefore shall you plant a false plant, and a false seed.

In the day in which you shall plant you shall be deceived; but if you sow in the morning, [the seed] shall spring up for a crop in the day in which you shall obtain an inheritance, and as a man's father, you shall obtain an inheritance for your sons.

Will a man insult God? For you insult Me. But you say, How have we insulted You? In that the tithes and firstfruits are with you [still].

The year is completed, and you have brought all the produce into the storehouses; but there shall be the plunder thereof in its house: return now on this behalf, says the Lord Almighty, [see] if I will not open to you the torrents of heaven, and pour out My blessing upon you, until you are satisfied.

And the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuke of the Lord, at the blast of the breath of His anger.

Behold, I shall send a blast upon him, and he shall hear a report, and shall return to his own land; and I will overthrow him with the sword in his own land.

[This translation omits this verse.]

If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name, says the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yes, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because you take this not to heart.

And I will say to the Lord, Do not teach me to be impious; and wherefore have You thus judged me?

I considered the days of old, and remembered ancient ears.

Will the Lord cast off forever? And will He be well pleased no more?

Will God forget to pity? Or will He shut up His compassions in His wrath? Pause.

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

And the Lord said to Joshua, Rise up; why have you fallen upon your face?

And the children of Israel will not be able to stand before their enemies; they will turn their back before their enemies, for they have become an accursed thing: I will no longer be with you, unless you remove the accursed thing from yourselves.

And you shall all be gathered together by your tribes in the morning, and it shall come to pass that the tribe which the Lord shall show, you shall bring by families; and the family which the Lord shall show, you shall bring by households; and the household which the Lord shall show you shall bring, man by man.

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, [There is] guilt upon Saul and his house because of his bloody murder, whereby he slew the Gibeonites.

He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me. And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy of Me.

Because of this many among you are weak and sick, and many have died.

But when we are judged, we are disciplined by the Lord, in order that we may not be condemned with the world.

Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

As many as I love, I rebuke and discipline. Be zealous therefore, and repent.