Haggai 1:7

7 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.

Haggai 1:7 in Other Translations

7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

7 "Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

7 “This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!

7 That's why God-of-the-Angel-Armies said: "Take a good, hard look at your life. Think it over."

7 The Lord of Hosts says this: "Think carefully about your ways.

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 Now this is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.

6 You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

7 This is what the LORD Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.

8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the LORD.

9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the LORD Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.

Cross References

• 1. S ver 5