Haggai 1:6

Haggai 1:6

4 “Is it ^atime for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this¹ temple to lie in ruins?”

5 Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: ^a“Consider your ways!

6 “You have ^asown much, and bring in little;
You eat, but do not have enough;
You drink, but you are not filled with drink;
You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;
And ^bhe who earns wages,
Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

7 Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways!

8 Go up to the ^amountains and bring wood and build the¹ temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified,” says the Lord.

9 ^a“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, ^bI blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.

10 Therefore ^athe heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

11 For I ^acalled for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on ^ball the labor of your hands.”

The People’s Obedience

12 ^aThen Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the Lord.

13 Then Haggai, the Lord’s messenger, spoke the Lord’s message to the people, saying, ^a“I am with you, says the Lord.”

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Nothing has prospered with you while you neglected your duty to God. The punishment corresponds to the sin. They thought to escape poverty by not building, but keeping their money to themselves; God brought it on them for not building (Proverbs 13:7; Proverbs 11:24; Matthew 6:33). Instead of cheating God, they had been only cheating themselves.

ye clothe . . . but . . . none warm—through insufficiency of clothing; as ye are unable through poverty from failure of your crops to purchase sufficient clothing. The verbs are infinitive, implying a continued state: "Ye have sown, and been bringing in but little; ye have been eating, but not to being satisfied; ye have been drinking, but not to being filled; ye have been putting on clothes, but not to being warmed" [MOORE]. Careful consideration of God's dealings with us will indicate God's will regarding us. The events of life are the hieroglyphics in which God records His feelings towards us, the key to which is found in the Bible [MOORE].

wages . . . put . . . into a bag with holes—proverbial for labor and money spent profitlessly (Zechariah 8:10; compare Isaiah 55:2; Jeremiah 2:13). Contrast, spiritually, the "bags that wax not old, the treasure in heaven that faileth not" (Luke 12:33). Through the high cost of necessaries, those who wrought for a day's wages parted with them at once, as if they had put them into a bag with holes.

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