King James Version (KJV) Authorized Version 1611
Read Full Chapter (Haggai 1) Haggai 1:5-6 KJV
"Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. 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 1:5-6 in Context (Verses 2–9 KJV)
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Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.
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Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
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Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
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Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.*
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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.*
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¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.*
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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.
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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 mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.*