Haggai 1:9 Cross References - JPS_ASV_Byz

⁹ Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of My house that lieth waste, while ye run every man for his own house.

¹⁰ And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Get thee up; wherefore, now, art thou fallen upon thy face? ¹¹ Israel hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed My covenant which I commanded them; yea, they have even taken of the devoted thing; and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have even put it among their own stuff. ¹² Therefore the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies, they turn their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed; I will not be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you. ¹³ Up, sanctify the people, and say: Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow; for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: There is a curse in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you. ¹⁴ In the morning therefore ye shall draw near by your tribes; and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come near by families; and the family which the LORD shall take shall come near by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come near man by man. ¹⁵ And it shall be that he that is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath; because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought a wanton deed in Israel.'

¹ And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said: 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.'

¹⁶ And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of the LORD, at the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

⁷ Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear a rumour, and shall return to his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.'

² I will say unto God: Do not condemn me; make me know wherefore Thou contendest with me.

⁵ (77:6) I have pondered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶ (77:7) In the night I will call to remembrance my song; I will commune with mine own heart; and my spirit maketh diligent search: ⁷ (77:8) 'Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will He be favourable no more? ⁸ (77:9) Is His mercy clean gone for ever? Is His promise come to an end for evermore? ⁹ (77:10) Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath He in anger shut up his compassions?' Selah ¹⁰ (77:11) And I say: 'This is my weakness, that the right hand of the Most High could change.

¹⁰ For thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and thou hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy stronghold; therefore thou didst plant plants of pleasantness, and didst set it with slips of a stranger; ¹¹ In the day of thy planting thou didst make it to grow, and in the morning thou didst make thy seed to blossom - a heap of boughs in the day of grief and of desperate pain.

⁷ The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of the LORD bloweth upon it - surely the people is grass.

⁴ 'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?

⁶ Ye have sown much, and brought 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 for a bag with holes.

¹⁶ through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the winevat to draw out fifty press-measures, there were but twenty; ¹⁷ I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to Me, saith the LORD -

² If ye will not hearken, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory unto My name, saith the LORD of hosts, then will I send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yea, I curse them, because ye do not lay it to heart.

⁸ Will a man rob God? Yet ye rob Me. But ye say: 'Wherein have we robbed Thee?' In tithes and heave-offerings. ⁹ Ye are cursed with the curse, yet ye rob Me, even this whole nation. ¹⁰ Bring ye the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in My house, and try Me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall be more than sufficiency. ¹¹ And I will rebuke the devourer for your good, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your land; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.

³⁷ He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. ³⁸ And he that doth not take his cross and follow after me, is not worthy of me.

³⁰ For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep. ³¹ But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged. ³² But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we may not be condemned with the world.

⁴ But I have this against thee, that thou didst leave thy first love.

¹⁹ As many as I love, I reprove and chasten; be zealous therefore, and repent.