Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Haggai 1:5 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 5. 5Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
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Quick Meaning
Introduces the first command to set their hearts on their ways before the inventory of frustrated labor.
A public date answers a public delay
This verse is one part of that explanation in Haggai 1:1–6. The complete section carries the connected meaning and how it should shape life.
Read It With
- Haggai 1:1–6
Read Haggai 1:1–6 together. Introduces the first command to set their hearts on their ways before the inventory of frustrated labor. The date, reported delay, house contrast, command to consider, and inventory of futility form the complete opening confrontation.
Read Haggai 1:5–6 together
Why these verses belong together: The command to consider is immediately specified by the five-part inventory of effort without satisfying yield.
Verse 5. 5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
Verse 6. 6 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.
What Remains True
Repentant action begins with sustained attention to the course and results of communal life.
How It Can Shape Life
- Set aside defensiveness long enough to examine what repeated choices are actually producing.
Continue in Context
Read the complete section for the connected explanation and how it should shape life. This verse is a doorway into that passage, not a saying that stands alone.
Read Haggai 1:1–6 — The Dated Word Exposes Neglected Worship and Fruitless LaborSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Haggai 1:1–6, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Haggai
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew clauses, verbal forms, divine titles, repeated words, and the base text behind lexical and translation analysis.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2 (commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00), wlc/Hag.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 1:1–6
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Haggai with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Material date, Hebrew, translation, textual, ritual, historical, and interpretive notes for the unit, tested rather than adopted automatically.
Exact location: NET Bible Haggai PDF, pp. 1784–1785, translation and notes on 1:1–6
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