Haggai 1:6

Tree of Life Version

You sowed much but bring in little. You eat but are never satisfied. You drink but not enough to get filled. You put on clothes but no one is warm. And whoever earns wages works for a bag full of holes.”

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year, so David sought the face of Adonai. Adonai replied, “It is because of Saul and his bloody house, for he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Kings 17:12

So she said, “As Adonai your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in the jar, and a little oil in the jug. Now look, I am gathering a couple of sticks, so that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it and die.”

Nehemiah 5:2

There were those who said, “We and our sons and our daughters are numerous. We must take grain, so we may eat and live.”

Job 20:22

In the fullness of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.

Job 20:28

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

Psalm 107:34

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, because of the evil of its inhabitants.

Proverbs 11:24

One gives freely, yet gains even more. Another withholds unjustly, and comes to poverty.

Isaiah 5:10

Ten acres of vineyard will yield six gallons, and an omer of seed will yield one ephah.

Jeremiah 12:13

They sowed wheat but reaped thorns. They wore themselves out, gaining nothing. So be ashamed of your harvest, because of Adonai’s fierce anger.

Jeremiah 14:4

Because the ground is cracked, since there has been no rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed— they cover 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

They have eaten but will not be satisfied. They have fornicated but will not increase. For they stopped giving heed to Adonai.

Hosea 8:7

“For they sow wind, and reap a whirlwind. There is no mature grain— the sprout yields no meal. Should it produce anything, strangers would swallow it up.

Leviticus 26:20

Also your strength will be spent in vain, for your land will not yield its increase, nor will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Haggai 1:10

Therefore, because of you, the sky has withheld dew and the earth has withheld its yield.

Haggai 1:5

But now,” thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Set your heart on your ways!

Haggai 1:7

Thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Set your heart on your ways!

Haggai 1:9

“You have looked for much, but indeed, there is little. What you have brought home, I have blown away. Why is this?”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—“because My House lies in ruins, while you are running, each to his own house.

Haggai 2:16

how were things? When one came to a grain-heap of twenty measures, there were ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were twenty.

Haggai 2:17

I struck you with blight and with mildew and with hail—every work of your hands—so you were nothing to Me”—it is a declaration of Adonai.

Zechariah 5:4

“I will send it out”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—“and it will enter into the house of the thief and into the house of the one who swears falsely by My Name and will reside inside his house destroying it, both its wood and its stones.”

Zechariah 8:10

Before those days there were no wages for man or animal, nor was there any shalom from adversity for those who came or went because I set every one against his neighbor.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, and if you will not take to heart to give glory to My Name” —says Adonai-Tzva’ot— “then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, indeed I have cursed them, because you did not take it to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:17

“Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.