Haggai 1:6

A Conservative Version

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 yourselves, but there is none warm. And he who earns wages earns wages [to put] into a bag with holes.

Cross References

Haggai 1:9

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

Hosea 4:10

And they shall eat, and not have enough. They shall play the harlot, and shall not increase, because they have left off taking heed to LORD.

Haggai 2:16

Through all that time, when a man came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were but ten. When he came to the wine vat to draw out fifty [vessels], there were but twenty.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

Malachi 2:2

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days there was no wage for man, nor any wage for beast, nor was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men each one against his neighbor.

Zechariah 5:4

I will cause it to go forth, says LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the

Jeremiah 44:18

But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

Jeremiah 14:4

because of the ground which is cracked. Because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame; they cover their heads.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

Job 20:28

The increase of his house shall depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath.

Job 20:22

In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come upon him.

1 Kings 17:12

And she said, As LORD thy God lives, I do not have a cake, but a handful of meal in the jar, and a little oil in the cruse. And, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son that we may eat it,

2 Samuel 21:1

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David sought the face of LORD. And LORD said, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put to death the Gibeonites.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight, and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26:20

and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Nehemiah 5:2

For there were who said, We, our sons and our daughters, are many. Let us get grain that we may eat and live.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have put themselves to pain, and profit nothing. And ye shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce anger of LORD.

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:7

Thus says LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:10

Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

Haggai 2:17

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands, yet ye [turned] not to me, says LORD.

Deuteronomy 28:17

Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Proverbs 11:24

There is he who scatters, and increases yet more, and there he is who withholds more than is proper, but only to want.