John Gill Commentary Haggai 1:5

"Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways." — Haggai 1:5 (ASV)

Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts The Lord God omniscient and omnipotent, that saw all their actions, and could punish for them; since they were so careful of their own houses, and adorning them, and so careless of his house; he would have them now sit down, and seriously think of these things, and of what he should further observe to them:

Consider your ways ; their sinful ways, and repent of them, and forsake them, particularly their ingratitude before observed;

and their civil ways, their common ways of life; their labour, work, and business, they were continually employed in; and observe the event of them; what success they had, what these issued in; whether there were not some visible tokens of the divine displeasure on them, which rendered all their attempts to support and enrich themselves and families vain, and of no effect:

and they would do well to consider to what all this was to be imputed; whether it was not chiefly owing to this, their neglect of the house of God;

and this he would have considered, not in a slight cursory way; but with great earnestness, diligence, and application of mind: "put", or "set your hearts upon your ways" ^F16 ; so it may be literally rendered.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F16: (Mkbbl wmyv) "ponite corda vestra", V. L.; ponite cor vestrum", Burkius.