Haggai 1:7 (YLT)

Passage

Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.

Nearby Context

Haggai 1:5 And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.

Haggai 1:6 Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

Haggai 1:7 Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Set your heart to your ways.

Haggai 1:8 Go up the mountain, and ye have brought in wood, And build the house, and I am pleased with it. And I am honoured, said Jehovah.

Haggai 1:9 Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought <FI>it<Fi> home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? --an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running--each to his house,

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thus", "said", "jehovah", "hosts", "heart", and "ways". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thus" and "said", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 6's "Ye have sown much and brought in..." into verse 8's "Go up the mountain and ye have...", so "thus" and "said" 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 "thus" and "said" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.