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Haggai 1:6 KJV
Haggai · chapter 1 · verse 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.Haggai 1:6 · King James Version
Haggai 1:6 in context
4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
5Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
6Ye 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.
7Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
8Go 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.
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Key words (Strong's)
- littlemᵉʻaṭa little or fewH4592 →
- enoughsobʻâhsatietyH7654 →
- clothelâbashproperly, wrap aroundH3847 →
- bringbôwʼto go or comeH935 →
- drinkshâthâhto imbibeH8354 →
- drinkshâkarto become tipsyH7937 →
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It was the complaint of the Jews in Babylon that they saw not their signs, and there was no more prophet (Psa 74:9), which was a just judgment upon them for mocking and misusing the prophets. We read of no prophets they had in their return, as they had in their coming out of Egypt, Hos 12:13.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11