Now set your heart from this day and forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid. Consider in your heart.

And now, thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways.

Thus says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways.

Whoever is wise will observe these things, and they shall understand the goodness of Jehovah.

And the lute, and the harp, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are at their feasts; but they do not regard the work of Jehovah, neither do they give attention to the work of His hands.

Who is wise and discerns these things? Who is discerning and knows them? For the ways of Jehovah are right, and the righteous shall walk in them; but transgressors shall stumble in them.

Will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me. But you say, How have we robbed You? In the tithe and the offering.

Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and test Me now with this, says Jehovah of Hosts, whether I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour out a blessing until there is not enough room to store it.

What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

For if we would discern ourselves, we would not be judged.

When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Jehovah, the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise Jehovah, according to the ordinance of David king of Israel.

Thus the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem ceased, and it came to be ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.