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

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

Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little: and when ye brought it home, I did blow [d]upon it. And why, saith the Lord of hosts? Because of mine House that is waste, and ye turn every man unto his own house.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Haggai 1:8 That is, I will hear your prayers according to my promise, 1 Kings 8:21, 29.
  3. Haggai 1:8 That is, my glory shall be set forth by you.
  4. Haggai 1:9 And so bring it to nothing.

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