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Haggai 1:5
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Now the Lord All-Powerful says, ‘Think about what is happening.
Now then, the LORD of armies says this: "Consider your ways!
This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: "Think about what you have done.
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider your ways and thoughtfully reflect on your conduct!
Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.
And now the Lord of oostis seith these thingis, Putte ye youre hertis on youre weies.
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways,
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Think carefully about your ways.
Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
Therefore here is what Adonai -Tzva'ot says: ‘Think about your life!
And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
Nowe therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes; Consider your wayes.
Now the Lord of All says, "Think about your ways!
Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
Now therefore thus saith ye Lord of hostes, Consider your owne wayes in your hearts.
Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
Now, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, - Apply your heart unto your own experience -
And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways.
Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
Nowe thus sayth the Lord of hoastes, Consider your owne wayes in your heartes.
And now thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways, I pray you.
Don't you see what is happening to you?
Now, the Lord of Armies says this: “Think carefully about your ways:
Now therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider your ways.
Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
And so then, thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Consider your ways!
And now, so says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways!
And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.
Considre now youre owne wayes in youre hertes (saieth ye LORDE of hoostes)
And then a little later, God -of-the-Angel-Armies spoke out again: "Take a good, hard look at your life. Think it over. You have spent a lot of money, but you haven't much to show for it. You keep filling your plates, but you never get filled up. You keep drinking and drinking and drinking, but you're always thirsty. You put on layer after layer of clothes, but you can't get warm. And the people who work for you, what are they getting out of it? Not much— a leaky, rusted-out bucket, that's what.
Here then is what the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Think carefully about what you are doing.
Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider your ways!
Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider your ways!
So now, thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Set your heart to consider your ways!
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
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thus: Haggai 1:7, Haggai 2:15-18, Lamentations 3:40, Ezekiel 18:28, Luke 15:17, 2 Corinthians 13:5, Galatians 6:4
Consider your ways: Heb. Set your heart on your ways, Exodus 7:23, Exodus 9:21,*marg. Psalms 48:13, *marg. Ezekiel 40:4, Daniel 6:14, Daniel 10:12
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 7:9 - they said one 1 Chronicles 22:19 - set your 2 Chronicles 11:16 - set Psalms 50:22 - consider Psalms 107:37 - which may Psalms 119:59 - thought Proverbs 4:26 - Ponder Proverbs 21:29 - he directeth Ecclesiastes 7:2 - living Ecclesiastes 7:14 - but Isaiah 44:19 - considereth in his heart Isaiah 46:8 - bring Jeremiah 8:6 - saying Jeremiah 31:21 - set thine Ezekiel 18:14 - considereth Micah 6:9 - hear 1 Corinthians 11:28 - let a Hebrews 3:1 - consider
Cross-References
God called the space "sky." And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.
And evening passed and morning came, marking the third day.
And evening passed and morning came, marking the fourth day.
And evening passed and morning came, marking the fifth day.
Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
As long as the earth remains, there will be planting and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night."
Day after day they continue to speak; night after night they make him known.
Both day and night belong to you; you made the starlight and the sun.
You send the darkness, and it becomes night, when all the forest animals prowl about.
I create the light and make the darkness. I send good times and bad times. I, the Lord , am the one who does these things.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... The Lord God omniscient and omnipotent, that saw all their actions, and could punish for them; since they were so careful of their own houses, and adorning them, and so careless of his house; he would have them now sit down, and seriously think of these things, and of what he should further observe unto them:
Consider your ways; their sinful ways, and repent of them, and forsake them, particularly their ingratitude before observed; and their civil ways, their common ways of life; their labour, work, and business, they were continually employed in; and observe the event of them; what success they had, what these issued in; whether there were not some visible tokens of the divine displeasure on them, which rendered all their attempts to support and enrich themselves and families vain, and of no effect: and they would do well to consider to what all this was to be imputed; whether it was not chiefly owing to this, their neglect of the house of God; and this he would have considered, not in a slight cursory way; but with great earnestness, diligence, and application of mind: "put", or "set your hearts upon your ways" p; so it may be literally rendered.
p ש××× ××××× "ponite corda vestra", V. L.; "ponite cor vestrum", Burkius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And now, thus saith the Lord of hosts; âConsider,â (literally âset your heart upon) your ways,â what they had been doing, what they were doing, and what those doings had led to, and would lead to. This is ever present to the mind of the prophets, as speaking Godâs words, that our acts are not only âwaysâ in which we go, each day of life being a continuance of the day before; but that they are ways which lead, somewhere in Godâs Providence and His justice; to some end of the âway,â good or bad. So God says by Jeremiah Jeremiah 21:8. âI set before you the way of life and the way of death;â and David Psalms 16:11, âThou wilt show me the path of life,â where it follows, âIn Thy presence is the fullness of joy and at Thy Right Hand there are pleasures forevermore;â and Solomon Proverbs 6:23, âReproofs of instruction are the way of life;â and, he is in Proverbs 10:17, âthe way of life who keepeth instruction; and he who forsaketh rebuke, erreth;â and Proverbs 15:24, âThe way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath;â and of the adulterous woman, Proverbs 7:27. âHer house are the ways of hell, going down to the chambers of deathâ and Proverbs 5:5-6, âher feet go down unto death; her steps take hold on hell; lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life.â Again, Proverbs 14:12; Proverbs 16:25. âThere is a way that seemeth right unto a man, and the end thereof are the ways of death;â and contrariwise Proverbs 4:18, âThe path of the righteous is a shining light, shining more and more until the mid-dayâ Proverbs 2:13. âThe ways of darknessâ are the ways which end in darkness; and when Isaiah says Isaiah 59:8, âThe way of peace hast thou not known,â he adds, âwhosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.â They who choose not peace for their way, shall not find peace in and for their end.
On these your ways, Haggai says, âset your hearts,â not thinking of them lightly, nor giving a passing thought to them, but fixing your minds upon them; as God says to Satan Job 1:8, âHast thou set thy heart on My servant Job?â and God is said to set His eye or His face upon man for good Jeremiah 24:6; or for evil Jeremiah 21:10, He speaks also, not of setting the mind, applying the understanding, giving the thoughts, but of âsetting the heart,â as the seat of the affections. It is not a dry weighing of the temporal results of their ways, but a loving dwelling upon them, for repentance without love is but the gnawing of remorse.
Set your heart on your ways; - i. e., your affections, thoughts, works, so as to be circumspect in all things; as the apostle Paul says 1 Timothy 5:21, âDo nothing without forethought,â i. e., without previous judgment of reason; and Solomon Proverbs 4:25, âLet thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee;â and the son of Sirach, âSon, do nothing without counsel and when thou hast done it thou wilt not repent.â For since, according to a probable proposition, nothing in human acts is indifferent, i. e., involving neither good nor ill deserts, they who do not thus set their hearts upon their ways, do they not daily incur almost countless sins, in thought, word, desire, deed, yea and by omission of duties? Such are all fearless persons who heed not to fulfill what is written Proverbs 4:23, âKeep your heart with all watchfulness. ââ
âHe âsows muchâ to his own heart, but âbrings in little,â who by reading and hearing knows much of the heavenly commands, but by negligence in deeds bears little fruit. âHe eats and is not satisfied,â who, hearing the words of God, coveteth the gains or glory of the world. Well is he said not to be âsatisfied,â who eateth one thing, hungereth after another. He drinks and is not inebriated, who inclineth his ear to the voice of preaching, but changeth not his mind. For through inebriation the mind of those who drink is changed. He then who is devoted to the knowledge of Godâs word, yet still desireth to gain the things of the world, drinks and is not inebriated. For were he inebriated, no doubt he would have changed his mind and no longer seek earthly things, or love the vain and passing things which he had loved. For the Psalmist says of the elect Psalms 36:8, âthey shall be inebriated with the richness of Thy house,â because they shall be filled with such love of Almighty God, that, their mind being changed, they seem to be strangers to themselves, fulfilling what is written Matthew 16:24, âIf any will come after Me, let him deny himself. ââ
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 5. Consider your ways — Is it fit that you should be building yourselves elegant houses, and neglect a place for the worship of that God who has restored you from captivity?
