Haggai 1:7 (WEB)

Passage

This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.

Nearby Context

Haggai 1:5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:6 You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.”

Haggai 1:7 This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:8 Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.

Haggai 1:9 “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says Yahweh of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "yahweh", "armies", "says", "consider", and "ways". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "yahweh" and "armies", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "You have sown much and bring in..." into verse 8's "Go up to the mountain bring wood...", so "yahweh" and "armies" 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 "yahweh" and "armies" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.