Haggai 1:7

Thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

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6Ye have sown much, and brought in little, ye eat, but ye have not enough, ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink, ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes.

8Go up to the hill-country, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

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Cross References

Isaiah 28:10For it is precept by precept, precept by precept, line by line, line by line; here a little, there a little.

Haggai 1:5Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts: Consider 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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