Haggai 1:5 · KJV
“Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}”
— Haggai 1:5
{Is it} time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house {lie} waste?
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages {to put it} into a bag with holes. {with holes: Heb. pierced through}
Haggai 1 — Context
Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4{Is it} time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house {lie} waste?
5Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}
6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages {to put it} into a bag with holes. {with holes: Heb. pierced through}
7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}
Cross References
Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
2 Corinthians 13:5
Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?
Haggai 2:15-18
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
Haggai 1:7
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}
Luke 15:17
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
Exodus 9:21
And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field. {regarded...: Heb. set not his heart unto}
Galatians 6:4
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Daniel 10:12
Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.