Bible verse
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
Haggai 1:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from Haggai 1.
1 In the second year of the reign of Darius, on the first day of the sixth month, the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, stating
2 that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “These people say, ‘The time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’”
3 Then the word of the LORD came through Haggai the prophet, saying:
4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
5 Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
6 You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
7 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.
8 Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.
9 You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
KJV
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
ASV
Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
ERV
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways,
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