American Standard Version
"Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways. "
— Haggai 1:5, American Standard Version
“Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.”
“Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.”
“Here then, this is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies has said:‘Think carefully about what you are doing.”
“And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways.”
“For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.”
“Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.”
Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time for us to come, the time for Jehovah’s house to be built.
Then came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?
Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Ye 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.
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Go 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.