Haggai 1:6

New American Bible - revised edition

You have sown much, but have brought in little; you have eaten, but have not been satisfied; You have drunk, but have not become intoxicated; you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed; And the hired worker labors for a bag full of holes.

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

In David’s time there was a famine for three years, year after year. David sought the presence of the Lord, who said: There is bloodguilt on Saul and his family because he put the Gibeonites to death.

1 Kings 17:12

She said, “As the Lord, your God, lives, I have nothing baked; there is only a handful of flour in my jar and a little oil in my jug. Just now I was collecting a few sticks, to go in and prepare something for myself and my son; when we have eaten it, we shall die.”

Nehemiah 5:2

Some said: “We are forced to pawn our sons and daughters in order to get grain to eat that we may live.”

Job 20:22

When he has more than enough, distress shall be his, every sort of trouble shall come upon him.

Job 20:28

The flood shall sweep away his house, torrents in the day of God’s anger.

Psalm 107:34

Fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its people.

Proverbs 11:24

One person is lavish yet grows still richer; another is too sparing, yet is the poorer.

Isaiah 5:10

Ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat and reaped thorns, they have tired themselves out for no purpose; They are shamed by their harvest, the burning anger of the Lord. Judah’s Neighbors.

Jeremiah 14:4

because of the ruined soil; Because there is no rain in the land the farmers are confounded, they cover their heads.

Jeremiah 44:18

But ever since we stopped offering sacrifices to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out libations to her, we lack everything and are being destroyed by sword and hunger.”

Hosea 4:10

They will eat but not be satisfied, they will promote prostitution but not increase, Because they have abandoned the Lord, devoting themselves

Hosea 8:7

When they sow the wind, they will reap the whirlwind; The stalk of grain that forms no head can yield no flour; Even if it could, strangers would swallow it.

Leviticus 26:20

so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will need but one oven for baking your bread, and they shall dole it out to you by weight; and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

Haggai 1:10

Therefore, the heavens withheld the dew, and the earth its yield.

Haggai 1:5

Now thus says the Lord of hosts: Reflect on your experience!

Haggai 1:7

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Reflect on your experience!

Haggai 1:9

You expected much, but it came to little; and what you brought home, I blew away. Why is this?—oracle of the Lord of hosts— Because my house is the one which lies in ruins, while each of you runs to your own house.

Haggai 2:16

what was your experience? When one went to a heap of grain for twenty ephahs, there were only ten; When one went to a vat to draw fifty ephahs, there were only twenty.

Haggai 2:17

I struck you, and all the work of your hands, with searing wind, blight, and hail, yet you did not return to me—oracle of the Lord.

Zechariah 5:4

I will send it forth—oracle of the Lord of hosts—so that it will come to the house of the thief, and into the house of the one who swears falsely by my name. It shall lodge within each house, consuming it, timber and stones.” Sixth Vision: The Basket of Wickedness.

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days, there were no wages for people, nor hire for animals. Those who came and went were not safe from the enemy, for I set neighbor against neighbor.

Malachi 2:2

And if you do not take to heart giving honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, I will send a curse upon you and your blessing I will curse. In fact, I have already cursed it, because you do not take it to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:17

Cursed be your grain basket and your kneading bowl!