Haggai 1:5
Now therefore, thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Direct your heart unto your ways.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
In Context
4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth in ruins?
Cross References
Exodus 7:23And Pharaoh turned away and went into his house, and he did not set his heart to this thing also.
Psalms 48:13(48:14) Direct your mind to her outer wall, mark carefully her palaces: in order that ye may tell it to the latest generation.
Ezekiel 18:28Because he hath considered, and turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.
Daniel 6:14(6:15) Then the king, when he heard this matter, felt very much distressed within himself, and on account of Daniel he sought an excuse to deliver him; and till the going down of the sun he strove hard to rescue him.
Haggai 1:7Thus hath said the Lord of hosts, Direct your heart to your ways.
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 →