This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
Now may our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way to you.
The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse, says the LORD.
Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
“As for the word you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you!
Blessed is the man who is always reverent, but he who hardens his heart falls into trouble.
A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
I considered my ways and turned my steps to Your testimonies.
Oh, that my ways were committed to keeping Your statutes!
Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully: