Haggai 1:9
You were hoping for so much, but look, it turned out to be so little. Everything you brought home I blew away. And why was that? Because my house remains a ruin while you are preoccupied with building your own houses, declares the Lord Almighty.
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10That's why the clouds of heaven refused to send rain, and the earth refused to produce crops.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow a lot of seed in the field, but harvest very little because the locusts will destroy it.
2 Samuel 21:1Once during David's reign there was a famine for three years in a row, and David asked the Lord about it. The Lord replied, “It's because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites.”
2 Kings 19:7Look, I'm going to scare him—he'll hear a rumor, and he'll have to return to his own country. When he's there I'll have him killed by the sword.’”
Psalms 77:5I think of the old days, years ago.
Isaiah 5:10Ten acres of vineyard will only produce six gallons of wine, and a measure of seed only a tenth of that in grain.
Isaiah 40:7The grass wilts and the flower fades when the Lord breathes on them. Yes, the people are 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 →