Now then, the Lord of armies says this: “Consider 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.
- 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!
- 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 Yahweh.
- 2 Cor 13:5Examine your own selves, whether you are in the faith. Test your own selves. Or don’t you know as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? — unless indeed you are disqualified.
- Hag 2:15–18Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in Yahweh’s temple.
- Hag 1:7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
- Luke 15:17But when he came to himself he said, ‘How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough to spare, and I’m dying with hunger!
- Gal 6:4But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else.
- Exod 9:21Whoever didn’t respect Yahweh’s word left his servants and his livestock in the field.
- Dan 10:12Then he said to me, Don’t be afraid, Daniel; for from the first day that you set your heart to understand, and to humble yourself before your God, your words were heard: and I have come for your words’ sake.
- Ps 48:13Mark well her bulwarks. Consider her palaces, that you may tell it to the next generation.
- Ezek 40:4The man said to me, Son of man, see with your eyes, and hear with your ears, and set your heart on all that I shall show you; for, to the intent that I may show them to you, you are brought here: declare all that you see to the house of Israel.
- Dan 6:14Then the king, when he heard these words, was very displeased, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him; and he labored until the going down of the sun to rescue him.
- Ezek 18:28Because he considers, and turns away from all his transgressions that he has committed, he shall surely live. He shall not die.
- Exod 7:23Pharaoh turned and went into his house, and he didn’t even take this to heart.
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