Haggai 1:7

Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider how it goeth with you!

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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

In Context

6Ye sow much, and bring in little; Ye eat, but are not full; Ye drink, but are not satisfied; Ye clothe yourselves, but are not warmed; And he that earneth wages earneth them for a purse with holes.

8Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house, That I may have pleasure therein, And be glorified, saith Jehovah.

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Cross References

Isaiah 28:10For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Command upon command, command upon command, A little here, and a little there.”

Haggai 1:5Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider how it goeth with you!

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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