New King James Version
Haggai 1:5
5Now therefore, thus says the Lord 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 Living Translation (NLT)This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!
Context of Haggai 1:5
3Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?” Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! 6“You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.” 7Thus says the Lord 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
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Cross-references for Haggai 1:5
- Haggai 1:7Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways!
- Haggai 2:15‘And now, carefully consider from this day forward: from before stone was laid upon stone in the temple of the Lord—
- Lamentations 3:40Let us search out and examine our ways, And turn back to the Lord;
- Ezekiel 18:28Because he considers and turns away from all the transgressions which he committed, he shall surely live; he shall not die.
- Luke 15:17“But when he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
- 2 Corinthians 13:5Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
- Galatians 6:4But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
- Exodus 7:23And Pharaoh turned and went into his house. Neither was his heart moved by this.
- Exodus 9:21But he who did not regard the word of the Lord left his servants and his livestock in the field.
- Psalms 48:13Mark well her bulwarks; Consider her palaces; That you may tell it to the generation following.
- Ezekiel 40:4And the man said to me, “Son of man, look with your eyes and hear with your ears, and fix your mind on everything I show you; for you were brought here so that I might show them to you. Declare to the house of Israel everything you see.”
- Daniel 6:14And the king, when he heard these words, was greatly displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
- Daniel 10:12Then he said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard; and I have come because of your words.
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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