Haggai 1:7

7 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: '{Consider your ways}!^[a]

Haggai 1:7 Meaning and Commentary

Haggai 1:7

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways.
] What they have been; what has been the consequence of them; and to what the above things are to be ascribed. This exhortation is repeated, to impress it the more upon their minds; and to denote the importance of it, and the necessity of such a conduct; (See Gill on Haggai 1:5).

Haggai 1:7 In-Context

5 And so then, thus says Yahweh of hosts: '{Consider your ways}!

6 You have sown much but have harvested little. You have eaten without [being] satisfied; {you have drunk without being satiated}; you have worn clothes without [being] warm; the one who earns wages puts it in {a pouch with holes}.'

7 Thus says Yahweh of hosts: '{Consider your ways}!

8 Go up the mountain and bring wood and build the house so that I may be pleased with it and honored,' says Yahweh.

9 'You have looked for much, and look! [It came] to little; and [when] you brought [it] home, I blew it [away]. Why?' {declares} Yahweh of hosts. 'Because my house [is] desolate and you [are] running each to your own house!

Footnotes

• [a] Literally "Set your heart on your ways"