Haggai 1:9

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⁷ This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

⁸ Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

¹⁰ Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

¹¹ I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB: You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
KJV: 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.
WEB: “You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the LORD of Armies, “Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
ASV: Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, while ye run every man to his own house.
DARBY: Ye looked for much, and behold it was little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Wherefore? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, whilst ye run every man to his own house.
BLB: [You] turned for much, and behold, little; and you⁺ brought it home, and I blew it away. Because of what? An utterance of YHWH of Hosts, because of My house, the [way] that it [is] [in] ruins, while you⁺ are running, each man to his house.

ÅB: Dere venter meget, og se, det blir til lite, og når dere bærer det i hus, så blåser jeg det bort. Hvorfor? sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud. Fordi mitt hus ligger øde, mens dere har det travelt hver med sitt hus.
OTB: "Dere så etter mye, men se, det ble lite;
og da dere brakte det hjem, blåste jeg det bort.
Hvorfor?" erklærer Herren, hærskarenes Gud.
"På grunn av mitt hus, som ligger i ruiner,
mens hver av dere er opptatt med sitt eget hus.
B1930: I venter meget, og se, det blir til lite, og når I bærer det i hus, så blåser jeg det bort. Hvorfor? sier Herren, hærskarenes Gud. Fordi mitt hus ligger øde, mens I har det travelt hver med sitt hus.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Haggai 1:4
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
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Malachi 2:2
If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.
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Haggai 2:16–17
from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.
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Revelation 3:19
Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.
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Psalms 77:5–10
I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.
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Haggai 1:6
You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”
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Isaiah 40:7
The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.
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Joshua 7:10–15
But the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?
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