Haggai 1:5

And now, thus says the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways.

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

In Context

4Is it time for you to dwell in paneled houses, while this house is deserted?

6You sowed much and have brought in little. You consumed and have not been satisfied. You drank and have not been inebriated. You covered yourselves and have not been warmed. And whoever gathered wages, has put them in a bag with holes.

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Cross References

Exodus 7:23And he turned himself away, and he entered his house, neither did he apply his heart to this turn of events.

Psalms 48:13And man, when he was held in honor, did not understand. He has been compared to the senseless beasts, and he has become like them.

Ezekiel 18:28For by considering and turning himself away from all his iniquities, which he has worked, he shall certainly live, and he shall not die.

Daniel 6:14Now when the king had heard these words, he was greatly grieved, and, on behalf of Daniel, he set his heart to free him, and he labored even until sunset to rescue him.

Haggai 1:7Thus says the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways.

Luke 15:17And returning to his senses, he said: ‘How many hired hands in my father’s house have abundant bread, while I perish here in famine!

Matthew Henry on Haggai 1:2-12

Haggai The captivity in Babylon gave a very remarkable turn to the affairs of the Jewish church both in history and prophecy. It is made a signal epocha in our Saviour's genealogy, Matt. i. 17 . Nine of the twelve minor prophets, whose oracles we have been hitherto consulting, lived and preached before that captivity, and most of them had an eye to it in their prophecies, foretelling it as the just punishment of Jerusalem's wickedness. But the last three (in whom the Spirit of prophecy took its period, until it… Read the whole commentary →

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