Haggai 1:9
“Looking for much, and behold, little, || And you brought [it] home, and I blew on it—why?” A declaration of YHWH of Hosts, || “Because of My house that is desolate, || And you are running—each to his house,
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10Therefore, over you the heavens have refrained from dew, || And the land has refrained its increase.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:38You take much seed out into the field, and you gather little in, for the locust consumes it;
2 Samuel 21:1And there is a famine in the days of David [for] three years, year after year, and David seeks the face of YHWH, and YHWH says, “[This is] for Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put the Gibeonites to death.”
2 Kings 19:7Behold, I am giving a spirit in him, and he has heard a report, and has turned back to his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.”
Psalms 77:5I have reckoned the days of old, || The years of the ages.
Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vineyard yield one bath, || And a homer of seed yields an ephah.
Isaiah 40:7Grass has withered, the flower faded, || For the Spirit of YHWH blew on 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 →