Matthew Poole and continuators on Haggai 1:9

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 mine house that is waste , and ye run every man to his own house .

O Iewes, you toiled, and were at great cost, as verse 6.

Expected, hoped, promised your selves a great increase, a plentiful Harvest.

But you saw, discerned, and were sensible that it answered not expectation.

All dwindled into a very little, you were losers by all, went backward still.

Had your little been as the righteous man's little, you might have lived on it, and rejoiced in it, but it had not such a Blessing upon it; it was blasted, and so was weak, and empty, and heartless, it profited little.

All this curse on your Estate and Labour was for your ungodly neglect of my house, leaving it waste.

Did with eagerness carry on your own particular Buildings, spared not care or cost for them, you stir not a foot about my house, you run with greatest earnestness about your own,

Domestick affairs and concerns, in which not one or two, or some few, but every one is culpable, scarce any free from this fault.

Marginal references: Or, [illegible: 1 word] away.