Haggai 1:6

New English Translation

You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.’”

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

During David’s reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, “It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites.”

1 Kings 17:12

She said, “As certainly as the Lord your God lives, I have no food, except for a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. Right now I am gathering a couple of sticks for a fire. Then I’m going home to make one final meal for my son and myself. After we have eaten that, we will die of starvation.”

Nehemiah 5:2

There were those who said, “With our sons and daughters, we are many. We must obtain grain in order to eat and stay alive.”

Job 20:22

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. the full force of misery will come upon him.

Job 20:28

A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

Psalm 107:34

and a fruitful land into a barren place, because of the sin of its inhabitants.

Proverbs 11:24

One person is generous and yet grows more wealthy, but another withholds more than he should and comes to poverty.

Isaiah 5:10

Indeed, a large vineyard will produce just a few gallons, and enough seed to yield several bushels will produce less than a bushel.”

Jeremiah 12:13

My people will sow wheat, but will harvest weeds. They will work until they are exhausted, but will get nothing from it. They will be disappointed in their harvests because the Lord will take them away in his fierce anger.

Jeremiah 14:4

They are dismayed because the ground is cracked because there has been no rain in the land. The farmers, too, are dismayed and bury their faces in their hands.

Jeremiah 44:18

But ever since we stopped sacrificing and pouring out drink offerings to the Queen of Heaven, we have been in great need. Our people have died in wars or of starvation.”

Hosea 4:10

They will eat, but not be satisfied; they will engage in prostitution, but not increase in numbers; because they have abandoned the Lord by pursuing other gods.

Hosea 8:7

They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven; they will ration your bread by weight, and you will eat and not be satisfied.

Haggai 1:10

This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.

Haggai 1:5

Here then is what the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Think carefully about what you are doing.

Haggai 1:7

“Moreover, the Lord who rules over all says: ‘Pay close attention to these things also.

Haggai 1:9

‘You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little, and when you brought it home it disappeared right away. Why?’ asks the Lord who rules over all. ‘Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!

Haggai 2:16

From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.

Haggai 2:17

I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the Lord.

Zechariah 5:4

“I will send it out,” says the Lord who rules over all, “and it will enter the house of the thief and of the person who swears falsely in my name. It will land in the middle of his house and destroy both timber and stones.”

Zechariah 8:10

Before that time there was no compensation for man or animal, nor was there any relief from adversity for those who came and went, because I had pitted everybody – each one – against everyone else.

Malachi 2:2

If you do not listen and take seriously the need to honor my name,” says the Lord who rules over all, “I will send judgment on you and turn your blessings into curses – indeed, I have already done so because you are not taking it to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:17

Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.