Haggai 1:7

Yahweh of hosts says this: 1 “Consider your ways! 1

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Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

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6You have sown much seed, but bring in little harvest; you eat but do not have enough; 1 you drink but cannot get drunk. You wear clothes but cannot warm yourselves, 1 and the wage earner earns money only to put it into a bag full of holes! 1

8Go up to the mountain, bring timber, and build my house; 1 then I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified!—says Yahweh.” 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 28:10For it is command upon command, command upon command; rule upon rule, rule upon rule; 1 here a little, there a little. 1

Haggai 1:5So now Yahweh of hosts says this: 1 Consider your ways! 1

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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