Haggai 1:5-11

The Command to Rebuild the Temple

⁵ Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: _i Consider your ways. ⁶ _j You have sown much, and harvested little. _k You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who _l earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

⁷ "Thus says the Lord of hosts: _i Consider your ways. ⁸ Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that _m I may take pleasure in it and that _n I may be glorified, says the Lord. ⁹ _j You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, _o I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house _h that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. ¹⁰ Therefore _p the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. ¹¹ And _q I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on _r the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and _s on all their labors."

1. Cross References
   Haggai 2:15
   Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord.
   Haggai 2:18
   Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord 's temple was laid, consider:
   
2. Cross References
   Micah 6:15
   You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
   
3. Cross References
   Hosea 4:10
   They shall eat, but not be satisfied; they shall play the whore, but not multiply, because they have forsaken the Lord to cherish
   
4. Cross References
   Zechariah 8:10
   For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in, for I set every man against his neighbor.
   
5. Cross References
   Haggai 1:5
   Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.
   
6. Cross References
   Psalms 132:13 - 14
   For the Lord has chosen Zion; he has desired it for his dwelling place:
   
7. Cross References
   Haggai 2:9
   The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.'
   
8. Cross References
   Haggai 1:6
   You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
   
9. Cross References
   Haggai 2:17
   I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
   
10. Cross References
    Haggai 1:4
    Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?
    
11. Cross References
    Jeremiah 5:24 - 25
    They do not say in their hearts, 'Let us fear the Lord our God, who gives the rain in its season, the autumn rain and the spring rain, and keeps for us the weeks appointed for the harvest.
    Zechariah 8:12
    For there shall be a sowing of peace. The vine shall give its fruit, and the ground shall give its produce, and the heavens shall give their dew. And I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.
    1 Kings 8:35
    When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them.
    
12. Cross References
    2 Kings 8:1
    Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, "Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for seven years.
    Psalms 105:16
    When he summoned a famine on the land and broke all supply of bread.
    
13. Cross References
    Hosea 2:9
    Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
    
14. Cross References
    Haggai 2:17
    I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
    Psalms 128:2
    You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you.