Haggai 1:5

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 the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying: 4“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?” Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways. 6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.” 7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

Haggai 1:5 word by word

וְעַתָּ֕ה כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֖ר יְהוָ֣ה צְבָא֑וֹת שִׂ֥ימוּ לְבַבְכֶ֖ם עַל־דַּרְכֵיכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• Nowעַתָּ֫ה‛attâh · nowH6258
• this is whatכֹּהkôh · thusH3541
• the LORDיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• of Hostsצָבָאtsâbâ' tsebâ'âh · HostsH6635
• saysאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• Consider carefullyשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: considerH7760
• Consider carefullyלֵבָבlêbâb · heartH3824
• Consider carefullyעַל‛al · uponH5921
• your waysדֶּ֫רֶךְderek · way: conductH1870

Cross-references for Haggai 1:5

• Haggai 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
• Haggai 2:15Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
• Lamentations 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
• Ezekiel 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
• Luke 15:17Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food, but here I am, starving to death!
• 2 Corinthians 13:5Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Do you not realize that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you fail the test?
• Galatians 6:4Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.
• Exodus 7:23Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.
• Exodus 9:21but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.
• Psalms 48:13consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
• Ezekiel 40:4“Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”
• Daniel 6:14As soon as the king heard this, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel, and he labored until sundown to rescue him.
• Daniel 10:12“Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.

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

Topics related to Haggai 1:5

• Covetousness
• Fear of God
• Lukewarmness
• Temple

In the dictionaries

• Lord of Hosts
• Haggai
• Joshua (3)

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