Haggai 1:6

New Living Translation

You have planted much but harvest little. You eat but are not satisfied. You drink but are still thirsty. You put on clothes but cannot keep warm. Your wages disappear as though you were putting them in pockets filled with holes!

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

There was a famine during David’s reign that lasted for three years, so David asked the Lord about it. And the Lord said, “The famine has come because Saul and his family are guilty of murdering the Gibeonites.”

1 Kings 17:12

But she said, “I swear by the Lord your God that I don’t have a single piece of bread in the house. And I have only a handful of flour left in the jar and a little cooking oil in the bottom of the jug. I was just gathering a few sticks to cook this last meal, and then my son and I will die.”

Nehemiah 5:2

They were saying, “We have such large families. We need more food to survive.”

Job 20:22

“In the midst of plenty, they will run into trouble and be overcome by misery.

Job 20:28

A flood will sweep away their house. God’s anger will descend on them in torrents.

Psalm 107:34

He turns the fruitful land into salty wastelands, because of the wickedness of those who live there.

Proverbs 11:24

Give freely and become more wealthy; be stingy and lose everything.

Isaiah 5:10

Ten acres of vineyard will not produce even six gallons of wine. Ten baskets of seed will yield only one basket of grain.”

Jeremiah 12:13

My people have planted wheat but are harvesting thorns. They have worn themselves out, but it has done them no good. They will harvest a crop of shame because of the fierce anger of the Lord.”

Jeremiah 14:4

The ground is parched and cracked for lack of rain. The farmers are deeply troubled; they, too, cover their heads.

Jeremiah 44:18

But ever since we quit burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and stopped worshiping her with liquid offerings, we have been in great trouble and have been dying from war and famine.”

Hosea 4:10

They will eat and still be hungry. They will play the prostitute and gain nothing from it, for they have deserted the Lord

Hosea 8:7

“They have planted the wind and will harvest the whirlwind. The stalks of grain wither and produce nothing to eat. And even if there is any grain, foreigners will eat it.

Leviticus 26:20

All your work will be for nothing, for your land will yield no crops, and your trees will bear no fruit.

Leviticus 26:26

I will destroy your food supply, so that ten women will need only one oven to bake bread for their families. They will ration your food by weight, and though you have food to eat, you will not be satisfied.

Haggai 1:10

It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops.

Haggai 1:5

This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!

Haggai 1:7

“This is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you!

Haggai 1:9

You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, while all of you are busy building your own fine houses.

Haggai 2:16

When you hoped for a twenty-bushel crop, you harvested only ten. When you expected to draw fifty gallons from the winepress, you found only twenty.

Haggai 2:17

I sent blight and mildew and hail to destroy everything you worked so hard to produce. Even so, you refused to return to me, says the Lord.

Zechariah 5:4

And this is what the Lord of Heaven’s Armies says: I am sending this curse into the house of every thief and into the house of everyone who swears falsely using my name. And my curse will remain in that house and completely destroy it—even its timbers and stones.”

Zechariah 8:10

Before the work on the Temple began, there were no jobs and no money to hire people or animals. No traveler was safe from the enemy, for there were enemies on all sides. I had turned everyone against each other.

Malachi 2:2

Listen to me and make up your minds to honor my name,” says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, “or I will bring a terrible curse against you. I will curse even the blessings you receive. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you have not taken my warning to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:17

Your fruit baskets and breadboards will be cursed.