Haggai 1:5

And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie desolate?

6You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but have not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with drink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he that hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes.

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Cross References

Exodus 7:23And he turned himself away and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to it this time also.

Psalms 48:13Surround Sion, and encompass her: tell ye in her towers.

Ezekiel 18:28Because he considereth and turneth away himself from all his iniquities which he hath wrought, he shall surely live, and not die.

Daniel 6:14Now when the king had heard these words, he was very much grieved, and in behalf of Daniel he set his heart to deliver him and even till sunset he laboured to save him.

Haggai 1:7Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set Your hearts upon your ways:

Luke 15:17And returning to himself, he said: How many hired servants in my father's house abound with bread, and I here perish with hunger?

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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