Haggai 1 · Verse 5

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
Haggai 1:5, King James Version

Haggai 1:5 in other translations

BSBNow this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
WEBNow therefore this is what the LORD of Armies says: ‘Consider your ways.
ASVNow therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
YLTAnd now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.
DARBYAnd now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
BBEFor this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
WebsterNow therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

What does Haggai 1:5 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
5. 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
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?

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Haggai 1:1-11

Observe the sin of the Jews, after their return from captivity in Babylon. Those employed for God may be driven from their work by a storm, yet they must go back to it. They did not say that they would not build a temple, but, Not yet. Thus men do not say they will never repent and reform, and be religious, but, Not yet. And so the great business we were sent into the world to do, is not done. There is a proneness…

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Haggai 1:5 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְעַתָּ֕הve.'a.Tahand thereforeH6258
כֹּ֥הkohthusH3541
אָמַ֖ר'a.Marhe saysH559
יְהוָ֣הYah.wehYahwehH3068
צְבָא֑וֹתtze.va.'otof hostsH6635
שִׂ֥ימוּSi.musetH7760
לְבַבְכֶ֖םle.vav.Khemheart yourH3824
עַל\־'al-onH5921
דַּרְכֵיכֶֽם\׃dar.khei.Khemways yourH1870

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Cross references for Haggai 1:5

  • Lamentations 3:40

    Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.

  • 2 Corinthians 13:5

    Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

  • Haggai 2:15-18

    And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord: Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty. I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord. Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it.

  • Haggai 1:7

    Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

  • Luke 15:17

    And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

  • Exodus 9:21

    And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.

  • Galatians 6:4

    But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

  • Daniel 10:12

    Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.

  • Psalms 48:13

    Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.

  • Exodus 7:23

    And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.

  • Daniel 6:14

    Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

  • Ezekiel 40:4

    And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
thus.
7; 2:15-18; La 3:40; Eze 18:28; Lu 15:17; 2Co 13:5; Ga 6:4
Consider your ways. Heb. Set your heart on your ways.
Ex 7:23; 9:21; *marg:
Ps 48:13; *marg:
Eze 40:4; Da 6:14; 10:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Haggai 1:4

    Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

  • Haggai 1:5

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

  • Haggai 1:6

    Ye 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.

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Haggai 1:5 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Pues así ha dicho Jehová de los ejércitos: Pensad bien sobre vuestros caminos.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et maintenant, ainsi dit l’ Éternel des armées: Considérez bien vos voies.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und nun, so spricht Jehova der Heerscharen: Richtet eurer Herz auf eure Wege!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et nunc hæc dicit Dominus exercituum: Ponite corda vestra super vias vestras.