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Haggai 1:7

The LORD of armies says this: "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.
Hebrew Names Version
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Consider 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 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 Darius the king, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came by the prophet Haggai to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2 "This is what the LORD of armies says: 'This people says, "The time has not come, the time for the house of the LORD to be rebuilt."'" 3 Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4 "Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house remains desolate?" 5 Now then, the LORD of armies says this: "Consider your ways! 6 "You have sown much, only to harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but there is not enough for anyone to get warm; and the one who earns, earns wages to put into a money bag full of holes." 7 The LORD of armies says this: "Consider your ways!8 "Go up to the mountains, bring wood, and rebuild the temple, that I may be pleased with it and be honored," says the LORD. 9 "You start an ambitious project, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?" declares the LORD of armies. "It is because of My house which remains desolate, while each of you runs to his own house. 10 "Therefore, because of you the sky has withheld its dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.

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 "heaven." And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:9
Then God said, "Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:11
Then God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit according to their kind with seed in them"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:15
and they shall serve as lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:24
Then God said, "Let the earth produce living creatures according to their kind: livestock and crawling things and animals of the earth according to their kind"; and it was so.
Genesis 1:28
God blessed them; and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth."
Genesis 1:29
Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
Job 26:8
"He wraps up the waters in His clouds, And the cloud does not burst under them.
Psalms 104:10
He sends forth springs in the valleys; They flow between the mountains;
Psalms 148:4
Praise Him, highest heavens, And the 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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