Haggai 1:6

Good News Translation

You have planted much grain, but have harvested very little. You have food to eat, but not enough to make you full. You have wine to drink, but not enough to get drunk on! You have clothing, but not enough to keep you warm. And workers cannot earn enough to live on.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

During David's reign there was a severe famine which lasted for three full years. So David consulted the Lord about it, and the Lord said, “Saul and his family are guilty of murder; he put the people of Gibeon to death.” (

1 Kings 17:12

She answered, “By the living Lord your God I swear that I don't have any bread. All I have is a handful of flour in a bowl and a bit of olive oil in a jar. I came here to gather some firewood to take back home and prepare what little I have for my son and me. That will be our last meal, and then we will starve to death.”

Nehemiah 5:2

Some said, “We have large families, we need grain to keep us alive.”

Job 20:22

At the height of their success all the weight of misery will crush them.

Job 20:28

All their wealth will be destroyed in the flood of God's anger.

Psalm 107:34

He made rich soil become a salty wasteland because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

Proverbs 11:24

Some people spend their money freely and still grow richer. Others are cautious, and yet grow poorer.

Isaiah 5:10

The grapevines growing on five acres of land will yield only five gallons of wine. Ten bushels of seed will produce only one bushel of grain.”

Jeremiah 12:13

My people planted wheat, but gathered weeds; they have worked hard, but got nothing for it. Because of my fierce anger their crops have failed.”

Jeremiah 14:4

Because there is no rain and the ground is dried up, the farmers are sick at heart; they hide their faces.

Jeremiah 44:18

But ever since we stopped sacrificing to the Queen of Heaven and stopped pouring out wine offerings to her, we have had nothing, and our people have died in war and of starvation.”

Hosea 4:10

You will eat your share of the sacrifices, but still be hungry. You will worship the fertility gods, but still have no children, because you have turned away from me to follow other gods.”

Hosea 8:7

When they sow the wind, they will reap a storm! A field of grain that doesn't ripen can never produce any bread. But even if it did, foreigners would eat it up.

Leviticus 26:20

All your hard work will do you no good, because your land will not produce crops and the trees will not bear fruit.

Leviticus 26:26

I will cut off your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake all the bread they have. They will ration it out, and when you have eaten it all, you will still be hungry.

Haggai 1:10

That is why there is no rain and nothing can grow.

Haggai 1:5

Don't you see what is happening to you?

Haggai 1:7

Can't you see why this has happened?

Haggai 1:9

“You hoped for large harvests, but they turned out to be small. And when you brought the harvest home, I blew it away. Why did I do that? Because my Temple lies in ruins while every one of you is busy working on your own house.

Haggai 2:16

you would go to a pile of grain expecting to find twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat, but find only twenty.

Haggai 2:17

I sent scorching winds and hail to ruin everything you tried to grow, but still you did not repent.

Zechariah 5:4

The Lord Almighty says that he will send this curse out, and it will enter the house of every thief and the house of everyone who tells lies under oath. It will remain in their houses and leave them in ruins.”

Zechariah 8:10

Before that time no one could afford to hire either men or animals, and no one was safe from enemies. I turned people against one another.

Malachi 2:2

You must honor me by what you do. If you will not listen to what I say, then I will bring a curse on you. I will put a curse on the things you receive for your support. In fact, I have already put a curse on them, because you do not take my command seriously.

Deuteronomy 28:17

“The Lord will curse your grain crops and the food you prepare from them.