Haggai 1:6

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough to be satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be happy. You put on clothes but never have enough to get warm. The wage earner puts his wages into a bag with a hole in it.’

Cross References

Haggai 1:9

‘You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined  it. Why? ’ This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. ‘Because my house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Hosea 4:10

They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous  but not multiply. For they have abandoned their devotion to the  Lord.

Haggai 2:16

what state were you in?  When someone came to a grain heap of twenty measures, it only amounted to ten; when one came to the winepress to dip fifty measures from the vat, it only amounted to twenty.

Hosea 8:7

Indeed, they sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. There is no standing corn; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it did, foreigners would swallow it up.

Malachi 2:2

If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart  to honour my name,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings.  In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.

Isaiah 5:10

For a ten-acre  vineyard will yield only 22 litres of wine, and 220 litres  of seed will yield only 22 litres of grain.

Zechariah 8:10

For prior to those days neither people nor animals had wages. There was no safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I turned everyone against his neighbour.

Zechariah 5:4

I will send it out,’   #– #this is the declaration of the Lord of Armies #– #‘and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.’

Jeremiah 44:18

but from the time we ceased to burn incense to the queen of heaven and to offer her drink offerings, we have lacked everything, and through sword and famine we have met our end.’

Jeremiah 14:4

The ground is cracked since no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

Job 20:28

The possessions in his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s anger.

Job 20:22

At the height of his success  distress will come to him; the full weight of misery  will crush him.

1 Kings 17:12

But she said, ‘As the Lord your God lives,  I don’t have anything baked #– #only a handful of flour in the jar and a bit of oil  in the jug. Just now, I am gathering a couple of sticks in order to go and prepare it for myself and my son so we can eat it and die.’

2 Samuel 21:1

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David enquired  of the Lord. The Lord answered, ‘It is due to Saul and to his bloody family, because he killed the Gibeonites.’

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26:20

and your strength will be used up for nothing.  Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

Nehemiah 5:2

Some were saying, ‘We, our sons, and our daughters are numerous. Let us get grain so that we can eat and live.’

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves but have no profit. Be put to shame by your harvests because of the  Lord’s burning anger.

Haggai 1:5

Now, the Lord of Armies says this: ‘Think carefully  about  your ways:

Haggai 1:7

The Lord of Armies says this: ‘Think carefully about your ways.

Haggai 1:10

So on your account, the skies have withheld the dew and the land its crops.

Haggai 2:17

I struck you #– #all the work of your hands #– #with blight, mildew,  and hail,  but you didn’t turn to me #– #this is the Lord’s declaration.

Deuteronomy 28:17

Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

Proverbs 11:24

One person gives freely, yet gains more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.