Haggai 1:9
You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.
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10For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:38You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.
2 Samuel 21:1In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.
2 Kings 19:7See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death by the sword.
Psalms 77:5\77:4\You keep my eyes from sleep; I am so troubled that no words come.
Isaiah 5:10For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.
Isaiah 40:7The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.
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 →