Haggai 1:9

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

Haggai 1:4

Is it time for you to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins?

Revelation 3:19

Those whom I love, I reprove and chastise. Be earnest, therefore, and repent.

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.

Haggai 1:6

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.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower wilts, when the breath of the Lord blows upon it.” “Yes, the people is grass!

Revelation 2:4

Yet I hold this against you: you have lost the love you had at first.

Job 10:2

I will say to God: Do not put me in the wrong! Let me know why you oppose me.

2 Kings 19:7

I am putting in him such a spirit that when he hears a report he will return to his land. I will make him fall by the sword in his land.”

2 Samuel 22:16

Then the bed of the sea appeared; the world’s foundations lay bare, At the roar of the Lord, at the storming breath of his nostrils.

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.

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon can never be satisfied; so the eyes of mortals can never be satisfied.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are wearisome, too wearisome for words. The eye is not satisfied by seeing nor has the ear enough of hearing.

Ezekiel 21:31

Thus says the Lord God: Off with the turban and away with the crown! Nothing shall be as it was! Exalt the lowly and bring the exalted low!

Leviticus 19:25

Not until the fifth year may you eat its fruit, to increase the yield for you. I, the Lord, am your God.

Deuteronomy 28:38

Though you take out seed to your field, you will harvest but little, for the locusts will devour it.

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.