American Standard Version
Haggai 1:5
5Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Haggai 1:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
- New International Version (NIV)Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways!
Context of Haggai 1:5
3Then came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste? Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways. 6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Read all of Haggai 1Haggai 1:5 word by word
וְעַתָּ֕ה כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת שִׂ֥ימוּ לְבַבְכֶ֖ם עַל־דַּרְכֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Haggai 1:5
- Haggai 1:7Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
- Haggai 2:15And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.
- Lamentations 3:40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
- Ezekiel 18:28Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- Luke 15:17But when he came to himself he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish here with hunger!
- 2 Corinthians 13:5Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be reprobate.
- Galatians 6:4But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.
- Exodus 7:23And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he lay even this to heart.
- Exodus 9:21and he that regarded not the word of Jehovah left his servants and his cattle in the field.
- Psalms 48:13Mark ye well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces: That ye may tell it to the generation following.
- Ezekiel 40:4And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall show thee; for, to the intent that I may show them unto thee, art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
- Daniel 6:14Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to rescue him.
- Daniel 10:12Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel; for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, and to humble thyself before thy God, thy words were heard: and I am come for thy words’ sake.
Commentaries on Haggai 1:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Consider 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?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5And 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5Consider carefully your ways (literally Set your heart on these matters): For the Hebrews, the heart is where thinking, feeling, and willing occur. This command (also Haggai 1:7; 2:15, 18) urges people to think carefully and understand the link between their situation (drought and poverty, Haggai 1:6) and their failure to restore proper worship of the Lord (1:8–9).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. Consider your ways--literally, "Set your heart" on your ways. The plural implies, Consider both what ye have done (actively, La 3:40) and what ye have suffered (passively) [Jerome]. Ponder earnestly whether ye have gained by seeking self at the sacrifice of God.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Haggai 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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