Haggai 1:5

And now thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways, I pray you.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 your ceiled houses, whereas our house is desolate?

6Ye have sown much, but brought in little; ye have eaten, and are not satisfied; ye have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, ye have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered them into a bag full of holes.

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Cross References

Exodus 7:23And Pharaoh turned and entered into his house, nor did he fix his attention even on this thing.

Psalms 48:13And man being in honor, understands not: 1 He is compared to the senseless cattle, and is like to them. 1

Ezekiel 18:28and has turned away from all his ungodliness which he has committed: he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Haggai 1:7Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider 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 →

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