Haggai 1:9
Looking for much, and lo, little, And ye brought [it] home, and I blew on it, Wherefore? — an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Because of My house that is waste, And ye are running — each to his house,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
10Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:38'Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;
2 Samuel 21:1And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, 'For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.'
2 Kings 19:7Lo, I am giving in him a spirit, and he hath heard a report, and hath turned back to his land, and I have caused him to fall by the sword in his land.'
Psalms 77:5I have reckoned the days of old, The years of the ages.
Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vineyard do yield one bath, And an homer of seed yieldeth an ephah.
Isaiah 40:7Withered hath grass, faded the flower, For the Spirit of Jehovah blew upon it, Surely the people [is] 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 →