Haggai 1:6

Contemporary English Version 1995

You harvest less than you plant, you never have enough to eat or drink, your clothes don't keep you warm, and your wages are stored in bags full of holes.

Cross References

Haggai 1:9

You expected much, but received only a little. And when you brought it home, I made that little disappear. Why have I done this? It's because you hurry off to build your own houses, while my temple is still in ruins.

Hosea 4:10

Their food won't satisfy, and having sex at pagan shrines won't produce children. My people have rebelled

Haggai 2:16

you recalled what life was like in the past. When you wanted 200 kilograms of wheat, there were only 10, and when you wanted 50 jars of wine, there were only 20.

Hosea 8:7

If you scatter wind instead of wheat, you will harvest a whirlwind and have no wheat. Even if you harvest grain, enemies will steal it all.

Malachi 2:2

You had better take seriously the need to honor my name. Otherwise, when you give a blessing, I will turn it into a curse. In fact, I have already done this, because you haven't taken to heart your duties as priests.

Isaiah 5:10

Four hectares of grapevines will produce only 27 liters of juice, and 180 liters of seed will produce merely 18 liters of grain.

Zechariah 8:10

Before that time, neither people nor animals were rewarded for their work, and no one was safe anywhere, because I had turned them against each other.

Zechariah 5:4

The Lord All-Powerful has said, “I am sending this scroll into the house of everyone who is a robber or tells lies in my name, and it will remain there until every piece of wood and stone in that house crumbles.”

Jeremiah 44:18

But since the time we stopped burning incense and offering wine sacrifices to her, we have been dying from war and hunger.

Jeremiah 14:4

There has been no rain, and farmers feel sick as they watch cracks appear in the dry ground.

Psalm 107:34

flowing streams into scorched land, and fruitful fields into beds of salt.

Job 20:28

and all their possessions will be dragged off when God becomes angry.

Job 20:22

Once they have everything, distress and despair will strike them down,

1 Kings 17:12

The widow answered, “In the name of the living Lord your God, I swear that I don't have any bread. All I have is a handful of flour and a little olive oil. I'm on my way home now with these few sticks to cook what I have for my son and me. After that, we will starve to death.”

2 Samuel 21:1

While David was king, there were three years in a row when the nation of Israel could not grow enough food. So David asked the Lord for help, and the Lord answered, “Saul and his family are guilty of murder, because he had the Gibeonites killed.”

Leviticus 26:26

You will have such a shortage of bread, that ten women will be able to bake their bread in the same oven. Each of you will get only a few crumbs, and you will go hungry.

Leviticus 26:20

All of your hard work will be for nothing—and there will be no harvest of grain or fruit.

Nehemiah 5:2

and said, “We have large families, and it takes a lot of grain merely to keep us alive.”

Jeremiah 12:13

My people, you planted wheat, but because I was furious, I let only weeds grow. You wore yourselves out and gained only shame!

Haggai 1:7

Think about what I have said!

Haggai 1:10

That's also why the dew doesn't fall and your harvest fails.

Haggai 2:17

I made all of your hard work useless by sending mildew, mold, and hail—but you still did not return to me, your Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:17

You won't have enough bread to eat.

Proverbs 11:24

Sometimes you can become rich by being generous or poor by being greedy.