Haggai 1:7
What does Haggai 1:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Haggai 1:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
What Haggai 1:7 means
God repeats His command to consider their ways, underscoring urgency and compassion. He wants the lesson to settle deeply. Reflection is not a delay tactic but a path to wisdom and action. The repetition also guards against superficial responses—excuses, blame-shifting, or half-measures. The Lord’s title, Jehovah of hosts, again stresses His sovereign authority to diagnose and direct. He calls for deliberate, sober assessment of life under His rule. Real repentance involves the mind and the will; this summons is the hinge between convicting evidence and concrete instruction. By pausing them here again, God prepares them to hear and obey the simple, attainable steps He will soon command for the rebuilding of His house.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways:
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Context
This verse mirrors verse 5, bracketing the description of frustrated labor in verse 6. It serves as a reset before God’s practical directive in verse 8. The chapter’s flow thus moves from exposure (verses 2–4), to reflection (verses 5 and 7), to consequence (verses 6, 9–11), and to remedy (verse 8, then response in verses 12–15). The repetition highlights that change begins in the heart and mind before hammer meets wood.
v.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.
v.7This passage
v.8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith Jehovah.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Philippians 3:1
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not irksome, but for you it is safe.
- Haggai 1:5
Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
- Psalms 119:59
I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies.
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