Haggai 1:6

World Messianic Bible British Edition

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’

Cross References

2 Samuel 21:1

There was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the face of the LORD. The LORD said, “It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

1 Kings 17:12

She said, “As the LORD your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”

Nehemiah 5:2

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

Job 20:22

In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress will overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery will come on him.

Job 20:28

The increase of his house will depart. They will rush away in the day of his wrath.

Psalm 107:34

and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Proverbs 11:24

There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

Isaiah 5:10

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield an efah.”

Jeremiah 12:13

They have sown wheat, and have reaped thorns. They have exhausted themselves, and profit nothing. You will be ashamed of your fruits, because of the LORD’s fierce anger.”

Jeremiah 14:4

Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the ploughmen are disappointed. They cover their heads.

Jeremiah 44:18

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

Hosea 4:10

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned listening to the LORD.

Hosea 8:7

For they sow the wind, and they will reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The stalk will yield no head. If it does yield, strangers will swallow it up.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength will be spent in vain; for your land won’t yield its increase, neither will the trees of the land yield their fruit.

Leviticus 26:26

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight. You shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Haggai 1:10

Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:7

“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:9

“You looked for much, and, behold, 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 lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Haggai 2:16

Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.

Haggai 2:17

I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the LORD.

Zechariah 5:4

I will cause it to go out,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”

Zechariah 8:10

For before those days there was no wages for man nor any wages for an animal, neither was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men everyone against his neighbour.

Malachi 2:2

If you will not listen, and if you will not take 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 cursed them already, because you do not take it to heart.

Deuteronomy 28:17

Your basket and your kneading trough will be cursed.