[a]Ye have sown much, and bring in little: ye eat, but ye have not enough: ye drink, but ye are not filled: ye clothe you, but ye be not warm: and he that earneth wages, putteth the wages into a broken bag.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your own ways in your hearts.

Go [b]up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build this House, and [c]I will be favorable in it, and I will [d]be glorified, saith the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 1:6 Consider the plagues of God upon you for preferring your policies to his religion, and because ye seek not him first of all.
  2. Haggai 1:8 Meaning, that they should leave off their own commodities, and go forward in the building of God’s Temple, and in the setting forth of his religion.
  3. Haggai 1:8 That is, I will hear your prayers according to my promise, 1 Kings 8:21, 29.
  4. Haggai 1:8 That is, my glory shall be set forth by you.

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