Haggai 2:17

A Promise To Rebuild

¹⁶ From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty. ¹⁷ I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,' says the Lord. ¹⁸ Think carefully about the past: from today, the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, to the day work on the temple of the Lord was resumed, think about it.

Blight and Mildew

East Wind

Says the Lord

Work of Your Hands

Declares The Lord

Jehovah

Deuteronomy 28:22

He will afflict you with weakness, fever, inflammation, infection, sword, blight, and mildew; these will attack you until you perish.

1 Kings 8:37

"The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, I know you look for faithfulness. But even when you punish these people, they feel no remorse. Even when you nearly destroy them, they refuse to be corrected. They have become as hardheaded as a rock. They refuse to change their ways.

Haggai 1:9

You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little, and when you brought it home it disappeared right away. Why?' asks the Lord who rules over all. 'Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!

Haggai 1:11

Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.'"

Genesis 42:6

Now Joseph was the ruler of the country, the one who sold grain to all the people of the country. Joseph's brothers came and bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 42:23

(Now they did not know that Joseph could understand them, for he was speaking through an interpreter.)

Genesis 42:27

When one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey at their resting place, he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.

Exodus 9:18-29

I am going to cause very severe hail to rain down about this time tomorrow, such hail as has never occurred in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

2 Chronicles 6:28

"The time will come when the land suffers from a famine, a plague, blight, and disease, or a locust invasion, or when their enemy lays siege to the cities of the land, or when some other type of plague or epidemic occurs.

2 Chronicles 28:22

During his time of trouble King Ahaz was even more unfaithful to the Lord.

Job 36:13

The godless at heart nourish anger, they do not cry out even when he binds them.

Psalm 78:46

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Isaiah 9:13

The people did not return to the one who struck them, they did not seek reconciliation with the Lord who commands armies.

Isaiah 28:2

Look, the sovereign master sends a strong, powerful one. With the force of a hailstorm or a destructive windstorm, with the might of a driving, torrential rainstorm, he will knock that crown to the ground with his hand.

Isaiah 37:27

Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

Isaiah 42:25

So he poured out his fierce anger on them, along with the devastation of war. Its flames encircled them, but they did not realize it; it burned against them, but they did notice.

Isaiah 62:8

The Lord swears an oath by his right hand, by his strong arm: "I will never again give your grain to your enemies as food, and foreigners will not drink your wine, which you worked hard to produce.

Jeremiah 3:24

From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal, has taken away all that our ancestors worked for. It has taken away our flocks and our herds, and even our sons and daughters.

Jeremiah 6:16-17

The Lord said to his people: "You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. Ask where the old, reliable paths are. Ask where the path is that leads to blessing and follow it. If you do, you will find rest for your souls." But they said, "We will not follow it!"

Jeremiah 8:4-7

The Lord said to me, "Tell them, 'The Lord says, Do people not get back up when they fall down? Do they not turn around when they go the wrong way?

Hosea 7:9-10

Foreigners are consuming what his strenuous labor produced, but he does not recognize it! His head is filled with gray hair, but he does not realize it!

Amos 4:6

"But surely I gave you no food to eat in any of your cities; you lacked food everywhere you live. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!

Amos 4:8-11

People from two or three cities staggered into one city to get water, but remained thirsty. Still you did not come back to me." The Lord is speaking!

Zechariah 1:2-4

The Lord was very angry with your ancestors.

Zechariah 7:9-13

"The Lord who rules over all said, 'Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.

Revelation 2:21

I have given her time to repent, but she is not willing to repent of her sexual immorality.

Revelation 9:20-21

The rest of humanity, who had not been killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands, so that they did not stop worshiping demons and idols made of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood -- idols that cannot see or hear or walk about.