Haggai 1:7

Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,—Apply your heart to your own experience:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.

In Context

6Ye have sown much, but have brought in little, have eaten, and not been filled, have drunk, and not been satisfied with drink, have clothed you, and none hath been warm,—and, he that hath hired himself out, hath put his wages into a bag with holes.

8Ascend the mountain—and bring in wood and build the house,—that I may be pleased therewith and get myself glory, saith Yahweh.

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Cross References

Isaiah 28:10For it is—Precept upon precept, precept upon precept, Line upon line, line upon line,—A little here a little there.

Haggai 1:5Now, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,—Apply your heart unto your own experience—

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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