Haggai 1:6

Free Bible Version

You have sown much but harvested little. You eat but you're still hungry. You drink but you're still thirsty. You put on clothes but you're still cold. You work hard to earn money but put it in a bag full of holes.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

Once during David's reign there was a famine for three years in a row, and David asked the Lord about it. The Lord replied, “It's because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites.”

1 Kings 17:12

She replied, “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, only a handful of flour is left in a jar and a little bit of olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a few sticks so I can go and cook what's left for myself and my son so we can eat it, and then we'll die.”

Nehemiah 5:2

They were complaining, “Our families are so large we need more food so we can eat and live.”

Job 20:22

Even when the wicked have all that they want they run into trouble; all kinds of misery will fall upon them.

Job 20:28

All their possessions will be carried from their homes; they will be dragged off on the day of God's judgment.

Psalm 107:34

Fruitful ground becomes a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those living there.

Proverbs 11:24

If you give generously you receive more, but if you keep back what you should give, you end up poor.

Isaiah 5:10

Ten acres of vineyard will only produce six gallons of wine, and a measure of seed only a tenth of that in grain.

Jeremiah 12:13

My people sowed wheat but harvested thorns. They wore themselves out but gained no benefit. You should be ashamed of such a poor harvest, caused by the Lord's furious anger.

Jeremiah 14:4

The ground has dried up because there hasn't been any rain in the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

Jeremiah 44:18

But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to worship her, we've lost everything and have been dying as a result of war and famine.”

Hosea 4:10

They will eat, but they will not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution, but they will not prosper because they have given up on the Lord to go and prostitute themselves to other gods.

Hosea 8:7

Those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head of grain; it will produce no flour. Even if it did produce grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength will be completely wasted because your land won't produce crops, and your trees won't produce fruit.

Leviticus 26:26

I will send a famine so bread is in short supply. One oven will serve the needs of ten women baking bread. It will be distributed by weight so that you'll eat but won't have enough.

Haggai 1:10

That's why the clouds of heaven refused to send rain, and the earth refused to produce crops.

Haggai 1:5

So the Lord Almighty says this: Think about what you're doing!

Haggai 1:7

The Lord Almighty says this: Think about what you're doing!

Haggai 1:9

You were hoping for so much, but look, it turned out to be so little. Everything you brought home I blew away. And why was that? Because my house remains a ruin while you are preoccupied with building your own houses, declares the Lord Almighty.

Haggai 2:16

how was it for you? You expected a store of grain with twenty measures but only found ten. You thought you could empty out fifty measures from the winepress but there was only twenty.

Haggai 2:17

I struck with blight and mildew and hail everything you were working so hard for, but even so you refused to come back to me, says the Lord.

Zechariah 5:4

“I have sent the curse out and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of the one who swears lies in my name, declares the Lord Almighty. The curse will remain in that house, and will destroy it, both the timbers and the stones.”

Zechariah 8:10

Before that time there wasn't enough for people or for animals. No one could live normally because they were not safe from their enemies, and I set everyone against each other.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen and if you will not take it to heart to honor me, says the Lord Almighty, then I will place a curse on you and I will curse your blessings—in fact I have already cursed them because you haven't taken what I said to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:17

You will be cursed by not having bread.