Haggai 1:6

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

You have sown much and harvested little; you eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and you that earn wages earn wages to put them 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. The Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Kings 17:12

But she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jug; I am now gathering a couple of sticks so that I may go home and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

Nehemiah 5:2

For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many; we must get grain, so that we may eat and stay alive.”

Job 20:22

In full sufficiency they will be in distress; all the force of misery will come upon them.

Job 20:28

The possessions of their house will be carried away, dragged off in the day of God’s wrath.

Psalm 107:34

a fruitful land into a salty waste, because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

Proverbs 11:24

Some give freely yet grow all the richer; others withhold what is due and only suffer want.

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield but one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield a mere ephah.

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns; they have tired themselves out but profit nothing. They shall be ashamed of their harvests because of the fierce anger of the Lord.

Jeremiah 14:4

because the ground is cracked. Because there has been no rain on the land, the farmers are dismayed; they cover their heads.

Jeremiah 44:18

But from the time we stopped making offerings to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have perished by the sword and by famine.”

Hosea 4:10

They shall eat but not be satisfied; they shall prostitute themselves but not multiply, because they have forsaken the Lord to devote themselves to

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it shall yield no meal; if it were to yield, foreigners would devour it.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength shall be spent to no purpose: your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26:26

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven, and they shall dole out your bread by weight, and though you eat, you shall not be satisfied.

Haggai 1:10

Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.

Haggai 1:7

“Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.

Haggai 1:9

You have looked for much, but it came to little, and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses.

Haggai 2:16

how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.

Haggai 2:17

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

Zechariah 5:4

I have sent it out, says the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief and the house of anyone who swears falsely by my name, and it shall abide in that house and consume it, both timber and stones.”

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days there were no wages for people or for animals, nor was there any safety from the foe for those who went out or came in, and I set them all against one another.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, if you will not lay it to heart to give glory to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; indeed, I have already cursed them because you do not lay it to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:17

“Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.