Haggai 1:9
Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to litle: and when ye brought it home, I did blowe vpon it. And why, sayth the Lord of hostes? Because of mine House that is waste, and ye runne euery man vnto his owne house.
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In The King James Version
In Context
10Therefore the heauen ouer you stayed it selfe from dewe, and the earth stayed her fruite.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt carie out much seede into the fielde, and shalt gather but litle in: for the grashoppers shall destroy it.
2 Samuel 21:1Then there was a famine in the dayes of Dauid, three yeeres together: and Dauid asked counsell of the Lord, and the Lord answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloodie house, because hee slewe the Gibeonites.
2 Kings 19:7Beholde, I will sende a blast vpon him, and he shall heare a noyse, and returne to his owne lande: and I will cause him to fall by the sworde in his owne lande.
Psalms 77:5Then I considered the daies of olde, and the yeeres of ancient time.
Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vines shall yelde one bath, and the seede of an homer shall yelde an ephah.
Isaiah 40:7The grasse withereth, the floure fadeth, because the Spirite of the Lord bloweth vpon it: surely the people is grasse.
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 →