the Week of Proper 13 / Ordinary 18
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Haggai 1:5
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Now, the Lord of Armies says this: “Think carefully about your ways:
Now therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: Consider your ways.
Nowe therefore thus saith the Lord of hostes; Consider your wayes.
Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
Now then, the LORD of armies says this: "Consider your ways!
This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: "Think about what you have done.
Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider your ways and thoughtfully reflect on your conduct!
Now therefore thus saith ye Lord of hostes, Consider your owne wayes in your hearts.
Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts, "Consider your ways!
So now, thus says Yahweh of hosts, "Set your heart to consider your ways!
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Think carefully about your ways.
Therefore here is what Adonai -Tzva'ot says: ‘Think about your life!
And now thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Now the Lord All-Powerful says, ‘Think about what is happening.
Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
Don't you see what is happening to you?
And so then, thus says Yahweh of hosts: ‘Consider your ways!
And now, so says Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart on your ways!
Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.
Nowe thus sayth the Lord of hoastes, Consider your owne wayes in your heartes.
And now thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways, I pray you.
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways,
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.
And now the Lord of oostis seith these thingis, Putte ye youre hertis on youre weies.
Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Hosts says: Consider your ways.
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Here then is what the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Think carefully about what you are doing.
Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider your ways!
This is what the Lord of Heaven's Armies says: Look at what's happening to you!
Now the Lord of All says, "Think about your ways!
Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
Now, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, - Apply your heart unto your own experience -
And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways.
Now therefore thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider how you have fared.
And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.
Considre now youre owne wayes in youre hertes (saieth ye LORDE of hoostes)
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thus: Haggai 1:7, Haggai 2:15-18, Lamentations 3:40, Ezekiel 18:28, Luke 15:17, 2 Corinthians 13:5, Galatians 6:4
Consider your ways: Heb. Set your heart on your ways, Exodus 7:23, Exodus 9:21,*marg. Psalms 48:13, *marg. Ezekiel 40:4, Daniel 6:14, Daniel 10:12
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 7:9 - they said one 1 Chronicles 22:19 - set your 2 Chronicles 11:16 - set Psalms 50:22 - consider Psalms 107:37 - which may Psalms 119:59 - thought Proverbs 4:26 - Ponder Proverbs 21:29 - he directeth Ecclesiastes 7:2 - living Ecclesiastes 7:14 - but Isaiah 44:19 - considereth in his heart Isaiah 46:8 - bring Jeremiah 8:6 - saying Jeremiah 31:21 - set thine Ezekiel 18:14 - considereth Micah 6:9 - hear 1 Corinthians 11:28 - let a Hebrews 3:1 - consider
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God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning— Day Six.
For as long as Earth lasts, planting and harvest, cold and heat, Summer and winter, day and night will never stop."
class="poetry"> O my soul, bless God ! God , my God, how great you are! beautifully, gloriously robed, Dressed up in sunshine, and all heaven stretched out for your tent. You built your palace on the ocean deeps, made a chariot out of clouds and took off on wind-wings. You commandeered winds as messengers, appointed fire and flame as ambassadors. You set earth on a firm foundation so that nothing can shake it, ever. You blanketed earth with ocean, covered the mountains with deep waters; Then you roared and the water ran away— your thunder crash put it to flight. Mountains pushed up, valleys spread out in the places you assigned them. You set boundaries between earth and sea; never again will earth be flooded. You started the springs and rivers, sent them flowing among the hills. All the wild animals now drink their fill, wild donkeys quench their thirst. Along the riverbanks the birds build nests, ravens make their voices heard. You water the mountains from your heavenly cisterns; earth is supplied with plenty of water. You make grass grow for the livestock, hay for the animals that plow the ground. Oh yes, God brings grain from the land, wine to make people happy, Their faces glowing with health, a people well-fed and hearty. God 's trees are well-watered— the Lebanon cedars he planted. Birds build their nests in those trees; look—the stork at home in the treetop. Mountain goats climb about the cliffs; badgers burrow among the rocks. The moon keeps track of the seasons, the sun is in charge of each day. When it's dark and night takes over, all the forest creatures come out. The young lions roar for their prey, clamoring to God for their supper. When the sun comes up, they vanish, lazily stretched out in their dens. Meanwhile, men and women go out to work, busy at their jobs until evening. What a wildly wonderful world, God ! You made it all, with Wisdom at your side, made earth overflow with your wonderful creations. Oh, look—the deep, wide sea, brimming with fish past counting, sardines and sharks and salmon. Ships plow those waters, and Leviathan, your pet dragon, romps in them. All the creatures look expectantly to you to give them their meals on time. You come, and they gather around; you open your hand and they eat from it. If you turned your back, they'd die in a minute— Take back your Spirit and they die, revert to original mud; Send out your Spirit and they spring to life— the whole countryside in bloom and blossom. The glory of God —let it last forever! Let God enjoy his creation! He takes one look at earth and triggers an earthquake, points a finger at the mountains, and volcanoes erupt. Oh, let me sing to God all my life long, sing hymns to my God as long as I live! Oh, let my song please him; I'm so pleased to be singing to God . But clear the ground of sinners— no more godless men and women! O my soul, bless God !
But for right now, friends, I'm completely frustrated by your unspiritual dealings with each other and with God. You're acting like infants in relation to Christ, capable of nothing much more than nursing at the breast. Well, then, I'll nurse you since you don't seem capable of anything more. As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way? When one of you says, "I'm on Paul's side," and another says, "I'm for Apollos," aren't you being totally infantile? Who do you think Paul is, anyway? Or Apollos, for that matter? Servants, both of us—servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. I planted the seed, Apollos watered the plants, but God made you grow. It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow. Planting and watering are menial servant jobs at minimum wages. What makes them worth doing is the God we are serving. You happen to be God's field in which we are working. Or, to put it another way, you are God's house. Using the gift God gave me as a good architect, I designed blueprints; Apollos is putting up the walls. Let each carpenter who comes on the job take care to build on the foundation! Remember, there is only one foundation, the one already laid: Jesus Christ. Take particular care in picking out your building materials. Eventually there is going to be an inspection. If you use cheap or inferior materials, you'll be found out. The inspection will be thorough and rigorous. You won't get by with a thing. If your work passes inspection, fine; if it doesn't, your part of the building will be torn out and started over. But you won't be torn out; you'll survive—but just barely. You realize, don't you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you? No one will get by with vandalizing God's temple, you can be sure of that. God's temple is sacred—and you, remember, are the temple. Don't fool yourself. Don't think that you can be wise merely by being up-to-date with the times. Be God's fool—that's the path to true wisdom. What the world calls smart, God calls stupid. It's written in Scripture, He exposes the chicanery of the chic. The Master sees through the smoke screens of the know-it-alls. I don't want to hear any of you bragging about yourself or anyone else. Everything is already yours as a gift—Paul, Apollos, Peter, the world, life, death, the present, the future—all of it is yours, and you are privileged to be in union with Christ, who is in union with God.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts,.... The Lord God omniscient and omnipotent, that saw all their actions, and could punish for them; since they were so careful of their own houses, and adorning them, and so careless of his house; he would have them now sit down, and seriously think of these things, and of what he should further observe unto them:
Consider your ways; their sinful ways, and repent of them, and forsake them, particularly their ingratitude before observed; and their civil ways, their common ways of life; their labour, work, and business, they were continually employed in; and observe the event of them; what success they had, what these issued in; whether there were not some visible tokens of the divine displeasure on them, which rendered all their attempts to support and enrich themselves and families vain, and of no effect: and they would do well to consider to what all this was to be imputed; whether it was not chiefly owing to this, their neglect of the house of God; and this he would have considered, not in a slight cursory way; but with great earnestness, diligence, and application of mind: "put", or "set your hearts upon your ways" p; so it may be literally rendered.
p ש××× ××××× "ponite corda vestra", V. L.; "ponite cor vestrum", Burkius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And now, thus saith the Lord of hosts; âConsider,â (literally âset your heart upon) your ways,â 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 Godâs words, that our acts are not only âwaysâ in which we go, each day of life being a continuance of the day before; but that they are ways which lead, somewhere in Godâs Providence and His justice; to some end of the âway,â good or bad. So God says by Jeremiah Jeremiah 21:8. âI set before you the way of life and the way of death;â and David Psalms 16:11, âThou wilt show me the path of life,â where it follows, âIn Thy presence is the fullness of joy and at Thy Right Hand there are pleasures forevermore;â and Solomon Proverbs 6:23, âReproofs of instruction are the way of life;â and, he is in Proverbs 10:17, âthe way of life who keepeth instruction; and he who forsaketh rebuke, erreth;â and Proverbs 15:24, âThe way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath;â and of the adulterous woman, Proverbs 7:27. âHer house are the ways of hell, going down to the chambers of deathâ and Proverbs 5:5-6, âher feet go down unto death; her steps take hold on hell; lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life.â Again, Proverbs 14:12; Proverbs 16:25. âThere is a way that seemeth right unto a man, and the end thereof are the ways of death;â and contrariwise Proverbs 4:18, âThe path of the righteous is a shining light, shining more and more until the mid-dayâ Proverbs 2:13. âThe ways of darknessâ are the ways which end in darkness; and when Isaiah says Isaiah 59:8, âThe way of peace hast thou not known,â he adds, âwhosoever goeth therein shall not know peace.â They who choose not peace for their way, shall not find peace in and for their end.
On these your ways, Haggai says, âset your hearts,â not thinking of them lightly, nor giving a passing thought to them, but fixing your minds upon them; as God says to Satan Job 1:8, âHast thou set thy heart on My servant Job?â and God is said to set His eye or His face upon man for good Jeremiah 24:6; or for evil Jeremiah 21:10, He speaks also, not of setting the mind, applying the understanding, giving the thoughts, but of âsetting the heart,â as the seat of the affections. It is not a dry weighing of the temporal results of their ways, but a loving dwelling upon them, for repentance without love is but the gnawing of remorse.
Set your heart on your ways; - i. e., your affections, thoughts, works, so as to be circumspect in all things; as the apostle Paul says 1 Timothy 5:21, âDo nothing without forethought,â i. e., without previous judgment of reason; and Solomon Proverbs 4:25, âLet thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee;â and the son of Sirach, âSon, do nothing without counsel and when thou hast done it thou wilt not repent.â For since, according to a probable proposition, nothing in human acts is indifferent, i. e., involving neither good nor ill deserts, they who do not thus set their hearts upon their ways, do they not daily incur almost countless sins, in thought, word, desire, deed, yea and by omission of duties? Such are all fearless persons who heed not to fulfill what is written Proverbs 4:23, âKeep your heart with all watchfulness. ââ
âHe âsows muchâ to his own heart, but âbrings in little,â who by reading and hearing knows much of the heavenly commands, but by negligence in deeds bears little fruit. âHe eats and is not satisfied,â who, hearing the words of God, coveteth the gains or glory of the world. Well is he said not to be âsatisfied,â who eateth one thing, hungereth after another. He drinks and is not inebriated, who inclineth his ear to the voice of preaching, but changeth not his mind. For through inebriation the mind of those who drink is changed. He then who is devoted to the knowledge of Godâs word, yet still desireth to gain the things of the world, drinks and is not inebriated. For were he inebriated, no doubt he would have changed his mind and no longer seek earthly things, or love the vain and passing things which he had loved. For the Psalmist says of the elect Psalms 36:8, âthey shall be inebriated with the richness of Thy house,â because they shall be filled with such love of Almighty God, that, their mind being changed, they seem to be strangers to themselves, fulfilling what is written Matthew 16:24, âIf any will come after Me, let him deny himself. ââ
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
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?
