Haggai 1:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

Have

With holes

Job 20:28

Zechariah 5:4

General references

Bible References

Have

“You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined it. Why?” This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts. “Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

what state were you in? When someone came to a grain heap of 20 measures, it only amounted to 10; when one came to the winepress to dip 50 measures from the vat, it only amounted to 20.

and your strength will be used up for nothing. Your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

“You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because locusts will devour it.

During David’s reign there was a famine for three successive years, so David inquired of the Lord. The Lord answered, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family when he killed the Gibeonites.”

and fruitful land into salty wasteland,
because of the wickedness of its inhabitants.

For a ten-acre vineyard will yield
only six gallons,
and 10 bushels of seed will yield
only one bushel.

The ground is cracked
since no rain has fallen on the land.
The farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.

They will eat but not be satisfied;
they will be promiscuous but not multiply.
For they have abandoned their devotion to the Lord.

Indeed, they sow the wind
and reap the whirlwind.
There is no standing grain;
what sprouts fails to yield flour.
Even if they did,
foreigners would swallow it up.

The fields are destroyed;
the land grieves;
indeed, the grain is destroyed;
the new wine is dried up;
and the olive oil fails.

I gave you absolutely nothing to eat

in all your cities,
a shortage of food in all your communities,
yet you did not return to Me.
This is the Lord’s declaration.

You will eat but not be satisfied,
for there will be hunger within you.
What you acquire, you cannot save,
and what you do save,
I will give to the sword.

For prior to those days neither man nor beast had wages. There was no safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I turned everyone against his neighbor.

If you don’t listen, and if you don’t take it to heart to honor My name,” says Yahweh of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. In fact, I have already begun to curse them because you are not taking it to heart.

You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.

With holes

The possessions in his house will be removed,
flowing away on the day of God’s anger.

I will send it out,”—this is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts—“and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by My name. It will stay inside his house and destroy it along with its timbers and stones.”

General references

But in the fifth year you may eat its fruit. In this way its yield will increase for you; I am Yahweh your God.

When I cut off your supply of bread, 10 women will bake your bread in a single oven and ration out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

Your basket and kneading bowl will be cursed.

Honor the Lord with your possessions
and with the first produce of your entire harvest;

You will sow but not reap;
you will press olives
but not anoint yourself with oil;
and you will tread grapes
but not drink the wine.

You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.