Haggai 1:5

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Now, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, - Apply your heart unto your own experience -

Parallel Translations

Easy-to-Read Version
Now the Lord All-Powerful says, ‘Think about what is happening.

New American Standard Bible
Now then, the LORD of armies says this: "Consider your ways!

New Century Version
This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: "Think about what you have done.

Update Bible Version
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.

Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

Amplified Bible
Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider your ways and thoughtfully reflect on your conduct!

English Standard Version
Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.

World English Bible
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And now the Lord of oostis seith these thingis, Putte ye youre hertis on youre weies.

English Revised Version
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways,

Berean Standard Bible
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Think carefully about your ways.

American Standard Version
Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.

Bible in Basic English
For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

Complete Jewish Bible
Therefore here is what Adonai -Tzva'ot says: ‘Think about your life!

Darby Translation
And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

King James Version (1611)
Nowe therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes; Consider your wayes.

New Living Translation
This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: Look at what's happening to you!

New Life Bible
Now the Lord of All says, "Think about your ways!

New Revised Standard
Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Now therefore thus saith ye Lord of hostes, Consider your owne wayes in your hearts.

George Lamsa Translation
Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways.

Revised Standard Version
Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you have fared.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe thus sayth the Lord of hoastes, Consider your owne wayes in your heartes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And now thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways, I pray you.

Good News Translation
Don't you see what is happening to you?

Christian Standard Bible®
Now, the Lord of Armies says this: “Think carefully about your ways:

Hebrew Names Version
Now therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider your ways.

King James Version
Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

Lexham English Bible
And so then, thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Consider your ways!

Literal Translation
And now, so says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways!

Young's Literal Translation
And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Considre now youre owne wayes in youre hertes (saieth ye LORDE of hoostes)

THE MESSAGE
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.

New English Translation
Here then is what the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Think carefully about what you are doing.

New King James Version
Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider your ways!

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider your ways!

Legacy Standard Bible
So now, thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Set your heart to consider your ways!

Contextual Overview

¹ In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first of the month, came the word of Yahweh, by the hand of Haggai the prophet, unto Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, pasha of Judah, and unto Jehoshua son of Jehozadak the high priest, saying: ² Thus, speaketh Yahweh of hosts, saying, - This people, have said, Not yet hath come the time for the house of Yahweh to be built. ³ Therefore hath come the word of Yahweh by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying: ⁴ Is it a time that, ye yourselves, should be dwelling in your own paneled houses? and, this house, be in ruins? ⁵ Now, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, - Apply your heart unto your own experience - ⁶ Ye have sown much, but have brought in little, have eaten, and not been filled, have drunk, and not been satisfied with drink, have clothed you, and none hath been warm, - and, he that hath hired himself out, hath put his wages into a bag with holes. ⁷ Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, - Apply your heart to your own experience: ⁸ Ascend the mountain - and bring in wood and build the house, - that I may be pleased therewith and get myself glory, saith Yahweh. ⁹ When ye looked for much, then lo! it came to little, when ye brought it home, then I did blow into it, - Because of what? Demandeth Yahweh of hosts, Because of my house, the which is in ruins, while ye keep running every man to his own house. ¹⁰ Wherefore - on your account, have the heavens, held back, dew, - and, the earth, held back her fruit;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Genesis 1:8
And God called the expanse, heavens. So it was evening - and it was morning, a, second day.

Genesis 1:13
So it was evening - and it was morning, a third day.

Genesis 1:19
So it was evening - and it was morning, a fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
So it was evening - and it was morning, a fifth day.

Genesis 1:31
And God saw every thing which he had made, and lo! it was very good. So it was evening - and it was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 8:22
During all the days of the earth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat and summer and winter, and day and night, shall not cease.

Psalms 19:2
Day, unto day, doth pour forth speech, and, night, unto night, doth breathe out knowledge.

Psalms 74:16
Thine, is the day, Yea, thine, the night, Thou, didst establish moon and sun;

Psalms 104:20
Thou causest darkness, and it becometh night, Therein, creepeth forth, Every wild beast of the forest;

Isaiah 45:7
Forming light and creating darkness, Making prosperity, and creating misfortune, - I - Yahweh, who doeth all these.

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 שימו לבבכם "ponite corda vestra", V. L.; "ponite cor vestrum", Burkius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And now, thus saith the Lord of hosts; “Consider,” (literally “set your heart upon) your ways,” 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 God’s words, that our acts are not only “ways” in which we go, each day of life being a continuance of the day before; but that they are ways which lead, somewhere in God’s Providence and His justice; to some end of the “way,” good or bad. So God says by Jeremiah Jeremiah 21:8. “I set before you the way of life and the way of death;” and David Psalms 16:11, “Thou wilt show me the path of life,” where it follows, “In Thy presence is the fullness of joy and at Thy Right Hand there are pleasures forevermore;” and Solomon Proverbs 6:23, “Reproofs of instruction are the way of life;” and, he is in Proverbs 10:17, “the way of life who keepeth instruction; and he who forsaketh rebuke, erreth;” and Proverbs 15:24, “The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath;” and of the adulterous woman, Proverbs 7:27. “Her house are the ways of hell, going down to the chambers of death” and Proverbs 5:5-6, “her feet go down unto death; her steps take hold on hell; lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life.” Again, Proverbs 14:12; Proverbs 16:25. “There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, and the end thereof are the ways of death;” and contrariwise Proverbs 4:18, “The path of the righteous is a shining light, shining more and more until the mid-day” Proverbs 2:13. “The ways of darkness” are the ways which end in darkness; and when Isaiah says Isaiah 59:8, “The way of peace hast thou not known,” he adds, “whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.” They who choose not peace for their way, shall not find peace in and for their end.

On these your ways, Haggai says, “set your hearts,” 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, “Hast thou set thy heart on My servant Job?” 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 “setting the heart,” 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, “Do nothing without forethought,” i. e., without previous judgment of reason; and Solomon Proverbs 4:25, “Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee;” and the son of Sirach, “Son, do nothing without counsel and when thou hast done it thou wilt not repent.” 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, ‘Keep your heart with all watchfulness. ‘“

“He “sows much” to his own heart, but “brings in little,” who by reading and hearing knows much of the heavenly commands, but by negligence in deeds bears little fruit. “He eats and is not satisfied,” who, hearing the words of God, coveteth the gains or glory of the world. Well is he said not to be “satisfied,” 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 God’s 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, “they shall be inebriated with the richness of Thy house,” 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, ‘If any will come after Me, let him deny himself. ‘“

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?