Haggai 1:5

And now, thus said YHWH of Hosts: “Set your heart to your ways.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4“Is it time for you to dwell in your covered houses, || And this house to lie waste?”

6You have sown much, and brought in little, || To eat, and not to satiety, || To drink, and not to drunkenness, || To clothe, and none has heat, || And he who is hiring himself out, || Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.”

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Cross References

Exodus 7:23and Pharaoh turns and goes into his house, and has not set his heart even to this;

Psalms 48:13Set your heart to her bulwark, || Consider her high places, || So that you recount to a later generation,

Ezekiel 18:28And he sees and turns back, || From all his transgressions that he has done, || He surely lives, he does not die,

Daniel 6:14Then the king, when he has heard the matter, is greatly displeased at himself, and on Daniel he has set the heart to deliver him, and until the going up of the sun he was arranging to deliver him.

Haggai 1:7Thus said YHWH of Hosts: “Set your heart to your ways.

Luke 15:17And having come to himself, he said, How many hired workers of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I am perishing here 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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