Haggai 1:6

God's Word

You planted a lot, but you harvested little. You eat, but you’re never full. You drink, but you’re still thirsty. You wear clothing, but you never have enough to keep you warm. You spend money as fast as you earn it.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

In the time of David, there was a famine for three successive years, and David asked the Lord’s advice about it. The Lord answered, “It’s because of Saul and his family. They are guilty of murder because they killed the people of Gibeon.”

1 Kings 17:12

She said, “I solemnly swear, as the Lord your God lives, I didn’t bake any bread. I have one handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. I’m gathering wood. I’m going to prepare something for myself and my son so that we can eat it and then die.”

Nehemiah 5:2

Some of them said, “We have large families! We need some grain ⌞if we are going⌟ to eat and stay alive.”

Job 20:22

⌞Even⌟ with all his wealth the full force of misery comes down on him.

Job 20:28

A flood will sweep away his house, a flash flood on the day of his anger.

Psalm 107:34

and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.

Proverbs 11:24

One person spends freely and yet grows richer, while another holds back what he owes and yet grows poorer.

Isaiah 5:10

A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.”

Jeremiah 12:13

My people planted wheat, but they harvested thorns. They worked until they became sick, but they gained nothing by it. They were disappointed by their harvests because of the burning anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 14:4

The ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers are disappointed. They cover their heads.

Jeremiah 44:18

But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out wine offerings to her, we have had nothing but wars and famines.”

Hosea 4:10

“They will eat, but they’ll never be full. They will have sex with prostitutes, but they’ll never have children. They have abandoned the Lord.

Hosea 8:7

“The people of Israel plant the wind, but they harvest a storm. A field of grain that doesn’t ripen will never produce any grain. Even if it did produce grain, foreigners would eat it all.

Leviticus 26:20

You will work hard for nothing because your land will produce no crops and the trees will produce no fruit.

Leviticus 26:26

I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.

Haggai 1:10

It is because of you that the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce.

Haggai 1:5

Now, this is what the Lord of Armies says: Carefully consider your ways!

Haggai 1:7

This is what the Lord of Armies says: Carefully consider your ways!

Haggai 1:9

“You expected a lot, but you received a little. When you bring something home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of Armies. “It’s because my house lies in ruins while each of you is busy working on your own house.

Haggai 2:16

When anyone came to a pile of grain ⌞to get⌟ 20 measures, there would be only 10. And when anyone came to a wine vat to draw out 50 measures, there would be only 20 in it.

Haggai 2:17

I infested all your work with blight and mildew and struck it with hail. But you didn’t come back to me, declares the Lord.

Zechariah 5:4

I will send out a curse, declares the Lord of Armies, and it will enter the houses of thieves and the houses of those who take oaths in my name. It will stay in their houses and destroy the timber and stone.”

Zechariah 8:10

Before that time there was no money to hire any person or animal. No one who traveled was safe from the enemy. I turned every person against his neighbor.

Malachi 2:2

If you won’t listen and if you won’t consider giving honor to my name,” says the Lord of Armies, “then I’ll send a curse on you, and I’ll curse the blessings you give. Yes, I’ve already cursed them because you don’t carefully consider this.

Deuteronomy 28:17

The grain you harvest and the bread you bake will be cursed.