Haggai 1

Haggai 1:2

This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.

The people make excuses for their neglect, and say, The time is not yet come for the building up of the Temple: fain would we be re-edifying it, but we see opposition made by our envious neighbours, so as it is not yet seasonable to go about it.

Haggai 1:4

Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?

Is it time for you, O ye Jews, to build for yourselves fair houses, and to take your pleasure in enjoying of them, while ye suffer God’s house to lie waste?

Haggai 1:5

Consider your ways.

Consider well the courses that ye take, and the success of your affairs.

Haggai 1:6

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

God hath justly crossed you in all your hopes and endeavours: ye have sown much, expecting a goodly crop, but ye find little to reap, &c. and he, that earneth wages, is never the better, never the richer; his gains do not prosper in his hands.

Haggai 1:8

Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.

Go ye up to mount Libanus, cut down cedars, and bring them up to Sion, and build this Temple of mine; and, though it be not done with that state and magnificence, wherewith it was formerly, yet I will take pleasure in it, and account myself glorified in and by it, saith the Lord.

Haggai 1:9

I did blow upon it.

I crossed your hopes and designs in it.