Haggai 1:9
“You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the LORD of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
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In Context
10Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:38You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.
2 Samuel 21:1There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
2 Kings 19:7Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”
Psalms 77:5I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”
Isaiah 40:7The grass withers, the flower fades, because the LORD’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like 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 →