Haggai 1:5

So the Lord Almighty says this: Think about what you're doing!

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

4Is it the proper time for you to live in your paneled houses while this house remains a ruin?

6You have sown much but harvested little. You eat but you're still hungry. You drink but you're still thirsty. You put on clothes but you're still cold. You work hard to earn money but put it in a bag full of holes.

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Cross References

Exodus 7:23Pharaoh went back to his palace and didn't pay any attention to what had happened.

Psalms 48:13Inspect the fortifications. Examine the citadels, so you can describe everything to the next generation, telling them:

Ezekiel 18:28Because they thought about it and gave up their wicked ways, they will certainly live—they won't die.

Daniel 6:14When the king heard this, he was very upset and tried to think of how to save Daniel. He worked hard until sundown trying to rescue him.

Haggai 1:7The Lord Almighty says this: Think about what you're doing!

Luke 15:17When he came to his senses, he said to himself, ‘All of my father's workers have more than enough to eat—why am I dying from hunger here?

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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