Haggai 1:6

New International Version

You have planted much, but harvested little. You eat, but never have enough. You drink, but never have your fill. You put on clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.”

Cross References

Haggai 1:9

“You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the Lord Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.

Hosea 4:10

“They will eat but not have enough; they will engage in prostitution but not flourish, because they have deserted the Lord to give themselves

Haggai 2:16

When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty.

Hosea 8:7

“They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.

Malachi 2:2

If you do not listen, and if you do not resolve to honor my name,” says the Lord Almighty, “I will send a curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already cursed them, because you have not resolved to honor me.

Isaiah 5:10

A ten-acre vineyard will produce only a bath of wine; a homer of seed will yield only an ephah of grain.”

Zechariah 8:10

Before that time there were no wages for people or hire for animals. No one could go about their business safely because of their enemies, since I had turned everyone against their neighbor.

Zechariah 5:4

The Lord Almighty declares, ‘I will send it out, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name. It will remain in that house and destroy it completely, both its timbers and its stones.’ ”

Jeremiah 44:18

But ever since we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have had nothing and have been perishing by sword and famine.”

Jeremiah 14:4

The ground is cracked because there is no rain in the land; the farmers are dismayed and cover their heads.

Psalm 107:34

and fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the wickedness of those who lived there.

Job 20:28

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

Job 20:22

In the midst of his plenty, distress will overtake him; the full force of misery will come upon him.

1 Kings 17:12

“As surely as the Lord your God lives,” she replied, “I don’t have any bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little olive oil in a jug. I am gathering a few sticks to take home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die.”

2 Samuel 21:1

During the reign of David, there was a famine for three successive years; so David sought the face of the Lord. The Lord said, “It is on account of Saul and his blood-stained house; it is because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will be able to bake your bread in one oven, and they will dole out the bread by weight. You will eat, but you will not be satisfied.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength will be spent in vain, because your soil will not yield its crops, nor will the trees of your land yield their fruit.

Nehemiah 5:2

Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.”

Jeremiah 12:13

They will sow wheat but reap thorns; they will wear themselves out but gain nothing. They will bear the shame of their harvest because of the Lord’s fierce anger.”

Haggai 1:5

Now this is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.

Haggai 1:7

This is what the Lord Almighty says: “Give careful thought to your ways.

Haggai 1:10

Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.

Haggai 2:17

I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me,’ declares the Lord.

Deuteronomy 28:17

Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.

Proverbs 11:24

One person gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.