Haggai 1:5

Now, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,—Apply your heart unto your own experience—

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

4Is it a time that, ye yourselves, should be dwelling in your own paneled houses? and, this house, be in ruins?

6Ye have sown much, but have brought in little, have eaten, and not been filled, have drunk, and not been satisfied with drink, have clothed you, and none hath been warm,—and, he that hath hired himself out, hath put his wages into a bag with holes.

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Cross References

Exodus 7:23Then Pharaoh, turned away, and entered into his house—neither applied he his heart, even to this.

Psalms 48:13Apply your mind to her rampart, Pass between her palaces, That ye may recount them to an after generation;

Ezekiel 18:28When he considered, then he turned away from all his transgressions which he had committed, He shall surely live. He shall not die.

Daniel 6:14Then, the king, when he heard, the matter, was sorely displeased with himself, and, upon Daniel, set his heart, to deliver him,—and, until the going in of the sun, was striving to rescue him.

Haggai 1:7Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,—Apply your heart to your own experience:

Luke 15:17But coming, to himself, he said—How many hired servants of my father, have bread enough and to spare, whereas, I, with famine, here, am perishing!

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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