Haggai 1:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Ye, O Jews, you toiled, and were at great cost, as Haggai 1:6. Looked for much; expected, hoped, promised yourselves a great increase, a plentiful harvest. And, lo, it came to little; 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. I did blow upon it: 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. Because of mine house that is waste; all this curse on your estate and labour was for your ungodly neglect of my house, leaving it waste. Ye run; 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. Every man to his own house, domestic affairs and concerns, in which not one or two, or some few, but every one is culpable, scarce any free from this fault.