Haggai 1:6

Modern English Version

You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you do not have enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David called upon the Lord. The Lord said, “There is blood guilt upon Saul and upon his house because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Kings 17:12

She said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, but only a handful of meal in a barrel and a little oil in a jar. I am gathering two sticks, that I can go in and make it for me and my son, so we may eat it and die.”

Nehemiah 5:2

Some were saying, “We and our sons and our daughters are many. Therefore, let us acquire grain so that we may eat and live.”

Job 20:22

In his self-sufficiency he will be in distress; every hand of misery will come upon him.

Job 20:28

The increase of his house will depart, and his goods will flow away in the day of His wrath.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into barrenness, because of the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

Proverbs 11:24

One gives freely, and yet increases; another withholds what is due, but only suffers want.

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the homer of seed shall yield one ephah.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, but reap thorns; they have strained themselves, but shall not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 14:4

Because the ground is chapped, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed; they have covered their heads.

Jeremiah 44:18

But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have been in want of all things and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.”

Hosea 4:10

They will eat, but not be satisfied; they will play the whore, but not multiply, because they have forsaken the Lord by devoting themselves to

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no head and will yield no flour. If it were to yield, foreigners would swallow it up.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield her increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

Leviticus 26:26

When I have broken the supply of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall ration your bread again by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Haggai 1:10

Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its crops.

Haggai 1:5

Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:7

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:9

You looked for much, and it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of Hosts. Because of My house that lies in ruins while each of you runs to his own house.

Haggai 2:16

from those days when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.

Haggai 2:17

I struck you and all the labor of your hands with blight and mildew and hail; yet you did not turn to Me.

Zechariah 5:4

I will send it out, says the Lord of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief, and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain in his house and consume it, with its timber and stones.”

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days there were no wages for a man, nor any hire for an animal; and there was no peace from an enemy for him who went out or came in, for I set every man against his neighbor.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, and if you will not take it to heart to give honor to My name, says the Lord of Hosts, I will send a curse on you and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:17

Your basket and your kneading bowl will be cursed.