Haggai 1:9

World Messianic Bible British Edition

“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.

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.”

2 Samuel 22:16

Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the LORD’s rebuke, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

2 Kings 19:7

Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he will hear news, and will return to his own land. I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.”’”

Job 10:2

I will tell God, ‘Do not condemn me. Show me why you contend with me.

Proverbs 11:24

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

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers, the flower fades, because the LORD’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

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.”

Ezekiel 21:31

I will pour out my indignation on you. I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath. I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skilful to destroy.

Leviticus 19:25

In the fifth year you shall eat its fruit, that it may yield its increase to you. I am the LORD your God.

Haggai 1:4

“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your panelled houses, while this house lies waste?

Haggai 1:6

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.’

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 28:38

You will carry much seed out into the field, and will gather little in, for the locust will consume it.

Revelation 2:4

But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

Revelation 3:19

As many as I love, I reprove and chasten. Be zealous therefore, and repent.