Haggai 1:9

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Haggai 1:9

“You look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of hosts, “Because of My house which lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.

Haggai 1:4

“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate?”

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades,
When the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
Surely the people are grass.

Haggai 1:6

You have sown much, but harvest little; you eat, but there is not enough to be satisfied; you drink, but there is not enough to become drunk; you put on clothing, but no one is warm enough; and he who earns, earns wages to put into a purse with holes.”

Joshua 7:10-15

So the Lord said to Joshua, “Rise up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

2 Samuel 22:16

“Then the channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world were laid bare
By the rebuke of the Lord,
At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

2 Kings 19:7

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

Job 10:2

“I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Let me know why You contend with me.

Psalm 77:5-10

I have considered the days of old,
The years of long ago.

Isaiah 17:10-11

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

Haggai 2:16-17

from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

Malachi 2:2

If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the Lord of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.

Malachi 3:8-11

“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.

Matthew 10:37-38

“He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

1 Corinthians 11:30-32

For this reason many among you are weak and sick, and a number sleep.

Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

Revelation 3:19

Those whom I love, I reprove and discipline; therefore be zealous and repent.

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Summary

Haggai 1:9

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

Ye looked

Blow upon it

Why

Job 10:2

Psalm 77:5

General references

Leviticus 19:25

Proverbs 3:9

Malachi 3:9

Bible References

Ye looked

from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

For you have forgotten the God of your salvation
And have not remembered the rock of your refuge.
Therefore you plant delightful plants
And set them with vine slips of a strange god.

“Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In tithes and offerings.

Blow upon it

“Then the channels of the sea appeared,
The foundations of the world were laid bare
By the rebuke of the Lord,

At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

Behold, I will put a spirit in him so that he will hear a rumor and return to his own land. And I will make him fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

The grass withers, the flower fades,

When the breath of the Lord blows upon it;

Surely the people are grass.

Why

“I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me;
Let me know why You contend with me.

I have considered the days of old,
The years of long ago.

General references

In the fifth year you are to eat of its fruit, that its yield may increase for you; I am the Lord your God.

Honor the Lord from your wealth

And from the first of all your produce;

You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!