Hag 1:9-11 | TNotes | STEP | 1:9 I blew it away: The Lord destroyed the harvest because the people’s priorities were wrong—they thought only of themselves rather than of God. • says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies: The “God-as-speaker formula,” which often closes a prophecy (1:13 ; 2:8 , 17 , 23 ), verified Haggai’s message as the sure word of God.

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‏ Haggai 1:9-11

1:9 ^a I blew it away: The Lord destroyed the harvest because the people’s priorities were wrong—they thought only of themselves rather than of God.

• says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies: The “God-as-speaker formula,” which often closes a prophecy (1:13 ^b; 2:8 ^c, 17 ^d, 23 ^e), verified Haggai’s message as the sure word of God.
1:11 ^f I have called for a drought: The people failed to recognize their plight as a divine judgment on their misplaced priorities, so Haggai interpreted the situation in light of the curses attached to the covenant (Deut 28:15-68 ^g, especially vv 22-24 ^h, 38-40 ⁱ).

• Drought (Hebrew khoreb) is a wordplay on “ruins” (Hag 1:4 ^j, 9 ^k; Hebrew khareb)—Judah’s experiences corresponded with the condition in which they had left the Lord’s Temple.