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Hebrew Names Version

Haggai 1:7

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Consider your ways.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covetousness;   Lukewarmness;   Repentance;   Self-Examination;   Temple;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joshua the son of jehozadak;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Temple;   Work;   Zechariah, Theology of;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Jerusalem;   Zechariah, the Book of;   Zerubbabel;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Haggai;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Zerubbabel;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Haggai;   Joshua (3);  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord of Armies says this: “Think carefully about your ways.
King James Version (1611)
Thus saith the Lord of hostes, Consider your wayes.
King James Version
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
English Standard Version
"Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Amplified Bible
Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider your ways and thoughtfully reflect on your conduct!
Geneva Bible (1587)
Thus sayth the Lorde of hostes, Consider your owne wayes in your hearts.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider your ways!
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Set your heart to consider your ways!
Berean Standard Bible
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Think carefully about your ways.
Contemporary English Version
Think about what I have said!
Complete Jewish Bible
"Here is what Adonai -Tzva'ot says: ‘Think about your life!
Darby Translation
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Easy-to-Read Version
The Lord All-Powerful said, "Think about what you are doing.
George Lamsa Translation
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
Good News Translation
Can't you see why this has happened?
Lexham English Bible
Thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Consider your ways!
Literal Translation
So says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways.
American Standard Version
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Bible in Basic English
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thus sayth the Lorde of hoastes, Consider your owne wayes in your heartes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways.
English Revised Version
Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
World English Bible
This is what Yahweh of Hosts says: "Consider your ways.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The Lord of oostis seith these thingis, Putte ye youre hertis on youre weies.
Update Bible Version
Thus says Yahweh of hosts: Consider your ways.
Webster's Bible Translation
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
New English Translation
"Moreover, the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Pay close attention to these things also.
New King James Version
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider your ways!
New Living Translation
"This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: Look at what's happening to you!
New Life Bible
The Lord of All says, "Think about your ways!
New Revised Standard
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, - Apply your heart to your own experience:
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways:
Revised Standard Version
"Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
Young's Literal Translation
Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thus saieth the LORDE of hoostes: Cosidre youre owne wayes in youre hertes,
THE MESSAGE
That's why God -of-the-Angel-Armies said: "Take a good, hard look at your life. Think it over."

Contextual Overview

1 In the second year of Daryavesh the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, the Word of the LORD came by Haggai, the prophet, to Zerubbavel, the son of She'alti'el, governor of Yehudah, and to Yehoshua, the son of Yehotzadak, the Kohen Gadol, saying, 2 "This is what the LORD of Hosts says: These people say, 'The time hasn't yet come, the time for the LORD's house to be built.'" 3 Then the Word of the LORD came by Haggai, the prophet, saying, 4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste? 5 Now therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider your ways. 6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it." 7 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified," says the LORD. 9 "You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the LORD of Hosts, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the eretz withholds its fruit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Haggai 1:5, Psalms 119:59, Psalms 119:60, Isaiah 28:10, Philippians 3:1

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 8:47 - Yet if they Proverbs 4:26 - Ponder Proverbs 21:29 - he directeth Isaiah 46:8 - bring Jeremiah 8:6 - saying Ezekiel 18:14 - considereth Haggai 2:15 - consider 1 Corinthians 11:28 - let a 2 Corinthians 13:5 - Examine

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse sky. There was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9
God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear," and it was so.
Genesis 1:11
God said, "Let the eretz put forth grass, herbs yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with its seed in it, on the eretz," and it was so.
Genesis 1:15
and let them be for lights in the expanse of sky to give light on the eretz," and it was so.
Genesis 1:24
God said, "Let the eretz bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, creeping things, and animals of the eretz after their kind," and it was so.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the eretz, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the eretz."
Genesis 1:29
God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the eretz, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Job 26:8
He binds up the waters in his thick clouds, And the cloud is not burst under them.
Psalms 104:10
He sends forth springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.
Psalms 148:4
Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways. What they have been; what has been the consequence of them; and to what the above things are to be ascribed. This exhortation is repeated, to impress it the more upon their minds; and to denote the importance of it, and the necessity of such a conduct; :-.


 
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