Haggai 1:9
“You looked for much, but behold! you have brought little home, for I blew it away! 1 Why?” declares Yahweh of hosts. 1 “Because my house lies in ruins, while every one of you is working on his own house. 1
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10Because of this the heavens withhold the dew from you, and the earth withholds its produce. 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:38You will take much seed out into the field, but will gather little seed in, for the locusts will consume it.
2 Samuel 21:1There was a famine in David's time for three years in a row, and David sought the face of Yahweh. So Yahweh said, “This famine is on you because of Saul and his murderous family, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
2 Kings 19:7Look, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear a certain report and go back to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”'”
Psalms 77:5I thought about the days of old, 1 about times long past. 1
Isaiah 5:10For a ten-yoke vineyard will yield only one bath, and one homer of seed will yield only an ephah. 1
Isaiah 40:7The grass withers and the flower wilts when the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely humanity is grass. 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 →