Haggai 1:6

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

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.”

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.”

Nehemiah 5:2

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

Job 20:22

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

Job 20:28

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

Psalm 107:34

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

Proverbs 11:24

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

Isaiah 5:10

Four hectares of grapevines will produce only twenty-seven litres of juice, and a hundred and eighty litres of seed will produce merely eighteen litres of grain.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people, you planted wheat, but because I was furious, I let only weeds grow. You wore yourselves out for nothing!

Jeremiah 14:4

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

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.

Hosea 4:10

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

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.

Leviticus 26:20

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

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.

Haggai 1:10

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

Haggai 1:7

Think about what I have said!

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.

Haggai 2:16

you recalled what life was like in the past. When you wanted two hundred kilogrammes of wheat, there were only a hundred, and when you wanted fifty jars of wine, there were only twenty.

Haggai 2:17

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

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.”

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.

Malachi 2:2

You had better take seriously the need to honour 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.

Deuteronomy 28:17

You won't have enough bread to eat.