Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Parallel translations
- WEB Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
- BSB Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully 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).
Cross-references & the web
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- Lam 3:40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
- 2 Cor 13:5Examine 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?
- Hag 2:15–18And 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:
- Hag 1:7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
- Luke 15:17And 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!
- Gal 6:4But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
- Exod 9:21And he that regarded not the word of the LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
- Dan 10:12Then 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.
- Ps 48:13Mark ye well her bulwarks, consider her palaces; that ye may tell it to the generation following.
- Ezek 40:4And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.
- Dan 6:14Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.
- Ezek 18:28Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
- Exod 7:23And Pharaoh turned and went into his house, neither did he set his heart to this also.
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