Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
- KJV Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
- NKJV Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways!
- NASB Now then, the Lord of armies says this: “Consider your ways!
- NLT This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!
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Quick answer
God commands the people to 'consider your ways,' to reflect honestly on the fruit of their priorities. Self-examination is the first step toward repentance.
Overview
Literally 'set your heart on your ways,' this call invites sober reflection rather than careless living. God will point to their frustrated labors as evidence that something is wrong. Scripture repeatedly urges such honest self-examination before the Lord (Lamentations 3:40; 1 Corinthians 11:28).
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- Lam 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.
- 2 Cor 13:5Examine yourselves to see whether you are in the faith; test yourselves. Can’t you see for yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you—unless you actually fail the test?
- Hag 2:15–18Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,
- Hag 1:7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
- Luke 15:17Finally he came to his senses and said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have plenty of food? But here I am, starving to death!
- Gal 6:4Each one should test his own work. Then he will have reason to boast in himself alone, and not in someone else.
- Exod 9:21but those who disregarded the word of the LORD left their servants and livestock in the field.
- Dan 10:12“Do not be afraid, Daniel,” he said, “for from the first day that you purposed to understand and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard, and I have come in response to them.
- Ps 48:13consider her ramparts, tour her citadels, that you may tell the next generation.
- Ezek 40:4“Son of man,” he said to me, “look with your eyes, hear with your ears, and pay attention to everything I am going to show you, for that is why you have been brought here. Report to the house of Israel everything you see.”
- Dan 6:14As soon as the king heard this, he was deeply distressed and set his mind on delivering Daniel, and he labored until sundown to rescue him.
- Ezek 18:28Because he considered and turned from all the transgressions he had committed, he will surely live; he will not die.
- Exod 7:23Instead, Pharaoh turned around, went into his palace, and did not take any of this to heart.
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The promise that the latter glory of the temple will exceed the former, and that God will shake the nations and bring 'the desire of all nations,' is fulfilled when Christ enters his temple.
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