Haggai 2:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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

Cross References

Genesis 42:23

They did not know that Joseph could understand them, since he was speaking through an interpreter.

Genesis 42:27

When they stopped for the night, one of them opened his sack to get some grain for his donkey, and straight away he saw his money bag.

Genesis 42:6

Since Joseph was governor of Egypt and in charge of selling grain, his brothers came to him and bowed with their faces to the ground.

1 Kings 8:37

Sometimes the crops may dry up or rot or be eaten by locusts or grasshoppers, and your people will be starving. Sometimes enemies may surround their towns, or your people will become sick with deadly diseases.

2 Chronicles 28:22

Even after all these terrible things happened to Ahaz, he sinned against the LORD even worse than before.

2 Chronicles 6:28

Sometimes the crops may dry up or rot or be eaten by locusts or grasshoppers, and your people will be starving. Sometimes enemies may surround their towns, or your people will become sick with deadly diseases.

Job 36:13

Godless people are too angry to ask God for help when he punishes them.

Psalm 128:2

Your fields will produce, and you will be happy and all will go well.

Psalm 78:46

God let worms and grasshoppers eat their crops.

Isaiah 28:2

Only the Lord is strong and powerful! His mighty hand will strike them down with the force of a hailstorm or a mighty whirlwind or an overwhelming flood.

Isaiah 37:27

Their people became weak, terribly confused. They were like wild flowers or like tender young grass growing on a flat roof or like a field of grain before it matures.

Isaiah 42:25

He was furious with them and punished their nation with the fires of war. Still they paid no attention. They didn't even care when they were surrounded and scorched by flames.

Isaiah 62:8

The LORD has given his word and made this promise: “Never again will I give to your enemies the grain and grapes for which you struggled.

Isaiah 9:13

The people of Israel still did not turn back to the LORD All-Powerful and worship him.

Jeremiah 3:24

Since the days of our ancestors when our nation was young, that shameful god Baal has taken our crops and livestock, our sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 5:3

I answered, “I know that you look for truth. You punished your people for their lies, but in spite of the pain, they became more stubborn and refused to turn back to you.”

Amos 4:6

I, the LORD, took away the food from every town and village, but still you rejected me.

Haggai 1:11

And so, at my command everything will become barren—your farmland and pastures, your vineyards and olive trees, your animals and you yourselves. All your hard work will be for nothing.

Haggai 1:6

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.

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.

Malachi 3:11

I will also stop locusts from destroying your crops and keeping your vineyards from producing.

Revelation 2:21

I gave her a chance to turn from her sins, but she did not want to stop doing these immoral things.