Haggai 1:9

Ye look for much, and lo, it cometh to little; And when ye bring it home, I blow it away; And why? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house which lieth waste, While ye run every one to his own house.

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In The King James Version

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

In Context

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

10Therefore the heaven over you withholdeth the dew, And the earth refuseth her fruit.

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Cross References

Psalms 77:5I think of the days of old,—The years of ancient times.

Isaiah 5:10Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield a single bath of wine, And a homer of seed shall produce but an ephah.

Isaiah 40:7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, When the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it. Truly 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 →

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