Haggai 1:6

New King James Version

“You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but 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 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 inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, “It is because of Saul and his bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.”

1 Kings 17:12

So she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a jar; and see, I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

Nehemiah 5:2

For there were those who said, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let us get grain, that we may eat and live.”

Job 20:22

In his self-sufficiency he will be in distress; Every hand of misery will come against 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, For the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Proverbs 11:24

There is one who scatters, yet increases more; And there is one who withholds more than is right, But it leads to poverty.

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, And a homer of seed shall yield one ephah.”

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat but reaped thorns; They have put themselves to pain but do not profit. But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

Jeremiah 14:4

Because the ground is parched, For there was no rain in the land, The plowmen were ashamed; They covered their heads.

Jeremiah 44:18

But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”

Hosea 4:10

For they shall eat, but not have enough; They shall commit harlotry, but not increase; Because they have ceased obeying the Lord.

Hosea 8:7

“They sow the wind, And reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud; It shall never produce meal. If it should produce, Aliens would swallow it up.

Leviticus 26:20

And your strength shall be spent in vain; for your land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26:26

When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Haggai 1:10

Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

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, but indeed 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 is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.

Haggai 2:16

since those days, when one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, there were but twenty.

Haggai 2:17

I struck you with blight and mildew and hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the Lord.

Zechariah 5:4

“I will send out the curse,” says the Lord of hosts; “It shall enter the house of the thief And the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. It shall remain in the midst of his house And consume it, with its timber and stones.”

Zechariah 8:10

For before these days There were no wages for man nor any hire for beast; There was no peace from the enemy for whoever went out or came in; For I set all men, everyone, against his neighbor.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not hear, And if you will not take it to heart, To give glory to My name,” Says the Lord of hosts, “I will send a curse upon you, And I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have cursed them already, Because you do not take it to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:17

“Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.