Haggai 2:19 (GNV)

Passage

Consider, I pray you, in your mindes, from this day, and afore from the foure and twentieth day of the ninth moneth, euen from the day that the foundation of the Lords Temple was laide: consider it in your mindes.

Nearby Context

Haggai 2:17 Before these things were, when one came to an heape of twentie measures, there were but ten: when one came to the wine presse for to drawe out fiftie vessels out of the presse, there were but twentie.

Haggai 2:18 I smote you with blasting, and with mildewe, and with haile, in all the labours of your hands: yet you turned not to me, saith the Lord.

Haggai 2:19 Consider, I pray you, in your mindes, from this day, and afore from the foure and twentieth day of the ninth moneth, euen from the day that the foundation of the Lords Temple was laide: consider it in your mindes.

Haggai 2:20 Is the seede yet in the barne? as yet the vine, and the figtree, and the pomegranate, and the oliue tree hath not brought forth: from this day will I blesse you.

Haggai 2:21 And againe the worde of the Lord came vnto Haggai in the foure and twentieth day of the moneth, saying,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "consider", "pray", "mindes", "afore", "foure", "twentieth", "ninth", and "moneth". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "consider" and "pray", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 18's "I smote you with blasting and with..." into verse 20's "Is the seede yet in the barne...", so "consider" and "pray" belong inside that flow. In Haggai context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "consider" and "pray" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.