Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of LORD.

New American Standard Bible

But now, do consider from this day onward: before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the Lord,

King James Version

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

Holman Bible

“Now, reflect back from this day: Before one stone was placed on another in the Lord’s temple,

International Standard Version

Pay attention from now on to how things used to be before one stone had been laid upon another in the Temple of the LORD.

American Standard Version

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.

Amplified

But now, do consider [what will happen] from this day forward: before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the Lord,

Bible in Basic English

And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:

Darby Translation

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and onward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah,

Julia Smith Translation

And now, set now your heart from this day and upward, before setting stone upon stone in the temple of Jehovah.

King James 2000

And now, I pray you, consider from this day onward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

Lexham Expanded Bible

But now, please {consider} from this day forward, before one stone was placed on another in the temple of Yahweh,

Modern King James verseion

And now, I ask you, set your heart on it; from this day and onward, before the placing of a stone on a stone in the temple of Jehovah;

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And now, I pray you, consider from this day forth, and how it hath gone with you afore - before there was laid one stone upon another in the temple of the LORD -

NET Bible

Now therefore reflect carefully on the recent past, before one stone was laid on another in the Lord's temple.

New Heart English Bible

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of the LORD.

The Emphasized Bible

Now, therefore, I pray you apply your heart, from this day and upwards, - So long as there had not been laid one stone upon another in the temple of Yahweh,

Webster

And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:

World English Bible

Now, please consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid on a stone in the temple of Yahweh.

Youngs Literal Translation

And now, lay it, I pray you, to your heart, From this day, and onwards, Before the laying of stone to stone in the temple of Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

and upward
מעל 
Ma`al 
Usage: 140

טרם 
Terem 
Usage: 55

שׂים שׂוּם 
Suwm 
Usage: 580

in the temple
היכל 
heykal 
Usage: 80

References

Easton

Fausets

Context Readings

A Promise To Rebuild

14 Then Haggai answered and said, So is this people, and so is this nation before me, says LORD, and so is every work of their hands. And that which they offer there is unclean. 15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of LORD. 16 Through all that time, when a man came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were but ten. When he came to the wine vat to draw out fifty [vessels], there were but twenty.

Cross References

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

Ezra 3:10

And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise LORD, after the order of David king of Israel.

Ezra 4:24

Then the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem ceased, and it ceased until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Haggai 1:7

Thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

Haggai 2:18

Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth [month], since the day that the foundation of LORD's temple was laid, consider it.

Psalm 107:43

He who is wise will give heed to these things, and they will consider the loving kindnesses of LORD.

Isaiah 5:12

And the harp and the lute, the tambourine and the pipe, and wine, are [in] their feasts, but they do not regard the work of LORD, nor have they considered the operation of his hands.

Hosea 14:9

Who is wise, that he may understand these things, prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them. But transgressors shall fall therein.

Malachi 3:8-11

Will a man rob God? Yet ye rob me. But ye say, How have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

Romans 6:21

What fruit therefore did ye have then, of which things ye are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.

1 Corinthians 11:31

But if we were discerning ourselves we would not be judged.

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