Holy Scripture
Haggai 1:4
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 4.) And now thus says the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways. Let there not be a time for speaking one thing and doing another: turn my commandments immediately into action. For the Lord is all-powerful who commands, and truly the authority of the all-powerful God is not light. Until now, your hearts…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
4Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, whereas our house is desolate?
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2Thus saith the Lord Almighty, saying, This people say, The time is not come to build the house of the Lord.
3And the word of the Lord came by the hand of the prophet Haggai, saying,
— Haggai 1:4 —
5And now thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways, I pray you.
6Ye have sown much, but brought in little; ye have eaten, and are not satisfied; ye have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, ye have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered them into a bag full of holes.