Haggai 1:9
[Till now] ye looked for much, and lo, it came to be little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. For what cause? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lieth in ruins, while ye run every man unto his own house.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
10Therefore do the heavens for your sake withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth her products.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:38Much seed wilt thou carry out into the field, yet but little shalt thou gather in; for the locust shall consume it.
2 Samuel 21:1And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David besought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, On account of Saul, and on account of the house of blood, is this; because he hath slain the Gib'onites.
2 Kings 19:7Behold, I will put an [other] spirit in him, that when he will hear a rumor, he shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.
Psalms 77:5(77:6) I think over the days of old, the years of ancient times.
Isaiah 5:10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield [but] one bath, and a chomer-seed shall yield [but] an ephah.
Isaiah 40:7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the Lord hath blown upon it; surely 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 →