Holy Scripture

Haggai 1:8

A church father on this verse
“Neither does he build a sepulchre for himself who dies before the time, for "he is dead while he liveth;" and he hears not the voice of Haggai, that is being interpreted, of the Feaster, for he enters not the Tabernacle of God, "in the voice of praise and thanksgiving, the sound of one feasting." For how can he hear H…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — Letter 30

Source: Septuagint

Original

8Go up to the mountain, and cut timber; build the house, and I will take pleasure in it, and be glorified, saith the Lord.

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6Ye have sown much, but brought in little; ye have eaten, and are not satisfied; ye have drunk, and are not satisfied with drink, ye have clothed yourselves, and have not become warm thereby: and he that earns wages has gathered them into a bag full of holes.

7Thus saith the Lord Almighty; Consider your ways.

— Haggai 1:8 —

9Ye looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus saith the Lord Almighty, Because my house is desolate, and ye run every one into his own house;

10therefore shall the sky withhold dew, and the earth shall keep back her produce.

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