Haggai 1:7

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

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6Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

8Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.

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Cross References

Isaiah 28:10For it is one rule after another; one line after another; here a little, there a little.

Haggai 1:5For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.

Matthew Henry on Haggai 1:2-12

Haggai The captivity in Babylon gave a very remarkable turn to the affairs of the Jewish church both in history and prophecy. It is made a signal epocha in our Saviour's genealogy, Matt. i. 17 . Nine of the twelve minor prophets, whose oracles we have been hitherto consulting, lived and preached before that captivity, and most of them had an eye to it in their prophecies, foretelling it as the just punishment of Jerusalem's wickedness. But the last three (in whom the Spirit of prophecy took its period, until it… Read the whole commentary →

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