Haggai 1:5

5 Und nun, so spricht Jehova der Heerscharen: Richtet eurer Herz auf eure Wege!

Haggai 1:5 Meaning and Commentary

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts
The Lord God omniscient and omnipotent, that saw all their actions, and could punish for them; since they were so careful of their own houses, and adorning them, and so careless of his house; he would have them now sit down, and seriously think of these things, and of what he should further observe unto them: Consider your ways;
their sinful ways, and repent of them, and forsake them, particularly their ingratitude before observed; and their civil ways, their common ways of life; their labour, work, and business, they were continually employed in; and observe the event of them; what success they had, what these issued in; whether there were not some visible tokens of the divine displeasure on them, which rendered all their attempts to support and enrich themselves and families vain, and of no effect: and they would do well to consider to what all this was to be imputed; whether it was not chiefly owing to this, their neglect of the house of God; and this he would have considered, not in a slight cursory way; but with great earnestness, diligence, and application of mind: "put", or "set your hearts upon your ways" ^F16; so it may be literally rendered.

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FOOTNOTES:

F16 (Mkbbl wmyv) "ponite corda vestra", V. L.; "ponite cor vestrum", Burkius.

Haggai 1:5 In-Context

3 Und das Wort Jehovas geschah durch den Propheten Haggai also:

4 Ist es für euch selbst Zeit, in euren getäfelten Häusern zu wohnen, während dieses Haus wüst liegt?

5 Und nun, so spricht Jehova der Heerscharen: Richtet eurer Herz auf eure Wege!

6 Ihr habt viel gesät und wenig eingebracht; ihr esset, aber nicht zur Sättigung; ihr trinket, aber nicht zur Genüge; ihr kleidet euch, aber es wird keinem warm; und der Lohnarbeiter erwirbt Lohn für einen durchlöcherten Beutel.

7 So spricht Jehova der Heerscharen: Richtet euer Herz auf eure Wege!