Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Haggai 1:8 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 8. 8Go 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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Quick Meaning
Gives the three-part action—go up, bring timber, build—and states the LORD's pleasure and glory as its purpose.
Read It With
- Haggai 1:7–11
Read Haggai 1:7–11 together. Gives the three-part action—go up, bring timber, build—and states the LORD's pleasure and glory as its purpose. The repeated consideration command, three building imperatives, divine purpose, causal answer, and drought belong to one action-and-explanation sequence.
Read Haggai 1:8–11 together
Why these verses belong together: The command and its divine purpose are followed by the explicit cause and full scope of the drought.
Verse 8. 8 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.
Verse 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 unto his own house.
Verse 10. 10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
Verse 11. 11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
What Remains True
The LORD gives concrete steps and orders the project toward his pleasure and honor rather than human display.
How It Can Shape Life
- Translate a genuine responsibility into bounded next actions and define its purpose before building.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Haggai 1:7–11 — The LORD Commands Rebuilding and Explains the DroughtSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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Supports: Exact reader-facing Scripture wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Haggai 1:7–11, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Haggai
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Hebrew clauses, verbal forms, divine titles, repeated words, and the base text behind lexical and translation analysis.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2 (commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00), wlc/Hag.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 1:7–11
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Haggai with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Material date, Hebrew, translation, textual, ritual, historical, and interpretive notes for the unit, tested rather than adopted automatically.
Exact location: NET Bible Haggai PDF, pp. 1784–1785, translation and notes on 1:7–11
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