New American Standard Bible 2020

Haggai 1:4-9

4“Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house remains 1desolate?” 5Now then, the Lord of armies says this: “2Consider your ways! 6You have 3sown much, only to 4harvest 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 there is not enough for 5anyone to get warm; and the one who earns, earns wages to put into a money bag full of holes.”

7The Lord of armies says this: “6Consider your ways! 8Go up to the 7mountains, bring wood, and 8rebuild the 9temple, that I may be 10pleased with it and be 11honored,” says the Lord. 9“12You 13start an ambitious project, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I 14blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of armies. “It is because of My house which 15remains desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.

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Notes

1. Haggai 1:4 Jer 33:10, 12; Hag 1:9 ↩
2. Haggai 1:5 Lit Set your heart on ↩
3. Haggai 1:6 Deut 28:38-40; Hos 8:7; Hag 1:9, 10; 2:16, 17 ↩
4. Haggai 1:6 Lit bring in ↩
5. Haggai 1:6 Lit him ↩
6. Haggai 1:7 Lit Set your heart on ↩
7. Haggai 1:8 Lit mountain ↩
8. Haggai 1:8 1 Kin 6:1 ↩
9. Haggai 1:8 Lit house ↩
10. Haggai 1:8 Ps 132:13, 14 ↩
11. Haggai 1:8 Hag 2:7, 9 ↩
12. Haggai 1:9 Prov 27:20; Eccl 1:8 ↩
13. Haggai 1:9 Lit turn to much ↩
14. Haggai 1:9 Is 40:7 ↩
15. Haggai 1:9 Hag 1:4 ↩

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