Haggai 1:7

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

In Context

6You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

8Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

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Cross References

Isaiah 28:10For they hear: “Order on order, order on order, line on line, line on line; a little here, a little there.”

Haggai 1:5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully 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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