Haggai 1:6

The Scriptures 1998

“You have sown much, but brought in little; eat, but do not have enough; drink, but you are not filled with drink; 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

And there was a scarcity of food in the days of Dawiḏ

1 Kings 17:12

And she said, “As יהוה  your Elohim 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 and shall go in and prepare it for myself and my son, and we shall eat it, and die.”

Nehemiah 5:2

And there were some who were saying, “We, our sons, and our daughters are many. Let us get grain for them, and eat, and live.”

Job 20:22

With all his plenty he is in distress; the hand of every labourer comes against him.

Job 20:28

The increase of his house departs, flowing away in the day of His wrath.

Psalm 107:34

A land of fruit becomes a salty desert, For the evil of those who dwell in it.

Proverbs 11:24

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

Isaiah 5:10

“For ten acres of vineyard yield one bath, and a ḥ

Jeremiah 12:13

“They have sown wheat but reaped thorns, they have exhausted themselves – they do not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvest because of the burning displeasure of יהוה.”

Jeremiah 14:4

“Because the ground became cracked, for there has been no rain in the land. The ploughmen were put to shame, they covered their heads.

Jeremiah 44:18

“But since we ceased burning incense to the sovereigness of the heavens and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all and have been consumed by the sword and by scarcity of food.

Hosea 4:10

“And they shall eat but not be satisfied, they shall whore but not increase, for they have stopped obeying יהוה.

Hosea 8:7

“For they sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no bud, it yields no grain. If it does yield, strangers swallow it up.

Leviticus 26:20

‘And your strength shall be spent in vain and your land not yield its crops, nor 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 to you your bread by weight, and you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Haggai 1:10

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

Haggai 1:5

And now, thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Consider your ways!

Haggai 1:7

Thus said יהוה  of hosts, “Consider your ways!

Haggai 1:9

“When you looked for much, then see, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I would blow on it. Why?” declares יהוה  of hosts. “Because of My House which lies in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house.

Haggai 2:16

since those days – one came to a heap of twenty ĕ

Haggai 2:17

‘I smote you with blight and mildew and hail in all the labours of your hands, and their was none of you with Me,’ declares יהוה.

Zechariah 5:4

“I shall send it out,” declares יהוה  of hosts, “and it shall come into the house of the thief and the house of the one who shall swear falsely by My Name. And it shall remain in the midst of his house and shall consume it, both its timber and stones.”

Zechariah 8:10

‘For before these days there was not a wage for a man, nor a hire for beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or came in, because of his enemies, and I set all men one against another.

Malachi 2:2

“If you do not hear, and if you do not take it to heart, to give esteem to My Name,” said יהוה  of hosts, “I shall send a curse upon you, and I shall curse your blessings. And indeed, I have cursed them, because you do not take it to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:17

“Cursed is your basket and your kneading bowl.