 | 1850 - 500 pages
...take pleasure in, while they had been employing their efforts to promote their own ease and comfort. "Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but...wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes — Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little ; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it.... | |
 | John Bird Sumner - 1850 - 520 pages
...it upon the heart. Men go on, and realise by experience, the truth of the prophet's remonstrance, " Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye eat, but...not filled with drink : ye clothe you, but there is 3 Sec Acts iv. 35, and v. 4. none warm ; and he that earneth wages, earueth wages to put into a bag... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 520 pages
...decorated houses, and this house of the Lord lie waste 1 Therefore, thus saith the Lord of Hoíts, Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in...ye eat, but ye have not enough ; ye drink, but ye arc not ñlled with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is no warm ; and he that earneth wases, earneth... | |
 | Edward Auriol - 1850 - 590 pages
...Te sow much, and bring in little ; ye eat, and have not enough ; ye drink, but ye are not satisfied with drink ; ye clothe you, but there is none warm...and he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it in a bag of holes." Holy Scripture here is only a transcript of common experience. The ambitious, the... | |
 | 1852 - 782 pages
...abandons. Success no more attends his enterprise, or he eats and is not satisfied, he is clothed and is not warm, and "he that earneth wages, earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes." What is the matter ? " The secret of the Lord " is gone. Things are not so much altered in appearance... | |
 | Witness Lee - 1980 - 80 pages
...one time, but Zechariah seven times. THE MYSTERY OF CHRIST Everyone understands the book of Haggai. "Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but...wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes" (Hag. 1:6-7). It is easy to understand this. And he says, "Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, saith the... | |
 | William Arnot - 1978 - 588 pages
...could not read on earth the causes of their failure, but a voice from on high proclaimed it : — " Ye have sown much, and bring in little ; ye eat, but...Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider your ways" (Hag. i. 6, 7). They had forgotten God, and he had withheld his blessing ; — there is the religion... | |
 | Michael E. Evans - 1988 - 58 pages
...houses, and this house lie waste? 5 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. 6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but...wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. 7 Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways. You are working day and night, but you never have... | |
 | Moshe Gil - 1997 - 1004 pages
...to explain. Assaf read Jacob (instead of Abraham) b. 'Amram by mistake. 276 cheap and unfortunately he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes', quoting Hag., i:6). Nehorai's brother-in-law Moses b. Jacob, writing from Jerusalem in March 1053,... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 pages
...dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste? Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. Ye have sown much, and bring in...wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes. HAGGAI JOHN CHAGY Shealtiel, governor of Judah, And Jehozadak, his friend, the high priest, Had no... | |
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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. 
