Haggai 1:6
You sow much and reap little. You eat but you do not have enough! You drink and yet you are not filled. You clothe yourselves but you are not warm. You earns wages, only to put them in a purse with holes in it.
Haggai 2:16
You would go to a pile of grain looking for twenty bushels, but there would be only ten. You would go to draw fifty gallons of wine from a vat and find only twenty.
Zechariah 8:10
Before those days, there was no wage for man or beast. The enemy set everyone against his neighbor and going or coming there was no peace.
Deuteronomy 28:38-40
You will plant many crops in your fields, but harvest little for locusts will destroy your crops.
Hosea 4:10
They will eat, and not have enough! They will play the harlot, and will not increase! They do not listen to Jehovah.
Hosea 8:7
The people of Israel plant the wind, but they harvest a storm. A field of grain that does not ripen will never produce any grain. Even if it did produce grain, foreigners would eat it all.
Haggai 1:9
You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house.
Leviticus 26:20
Your strength will be spent uselessly. Your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26:26
I will destroy your food supply. Ten women will need only one oven to prepare your food. You will eat and go away hungry.
2 Samuel 21:1
There was a famine for three successive years during David's reign. David asked Jehovah for advice about it. Jehovah answered: It is because of Saul and his family. They are guilty of murder because they killed the people of Gibeon.
1 Kings 17:12
Then she said: By the life of Jehovah your God, I have nothing but a little meal, and a drop of oil in the bottle; and now I am getting two sticks together so that I may go in and make it ready for me and my son, so that we may have a meal before our death.
Job 20:22
Distress will overtake him in the midst of his plenty. The full force of misery will come upon him.
Job 20:28
A flood will carry off his house. Rushing waters will wash away his possessions on the day of God's wrath.
Psalm 107:34
and fertile ground into a layer of salt because of the wickedness of the people living there.
Isaiah 5:10
A ten-acre vineyard will produce only six gallons of wine, and two quarts of seed will produce only four quarts of grain.
Jeremiah 14:4
There is no rain in the land and the ground is cracked. The farmers are disappointed. They cover their heads.
Jeremiah 44:18
Ever since we stopped sacrificing to the Queen of Heaven and stopped pouring out wine offerings to her, we have had nothing, and our people have died in war and of starvation.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
And he added: Mortal man, I am going to cut off the supply of bread for Jerusalem. The people there will be distressed and anxious as they measure out the food they eat and the water they drink.
Joel 1:10-13
The field is laid waste, the land mourns. The grain is destroyed, the new wine dried up, the oil fails.
Amos 4:6-9
I also gave you cleanness of teeth (kept food from your teeth) in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places. Yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.
Micah 6:14-15
You will eat and not be satisfied. Your stomach will still be empty. You will put away and yet will not save. That which you save I will give to the sword.
Zechariah 5:4
I will cause it to happen, said Jehovah of Hosts, and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of he who swears falsely by my name. The curse will abide in the midst of his house and will consume it with the timber and the stones of the house.
Malachi 2:2
You must honor me by your actions. If you will not listen to what I say, and give glory and honor to my name, I will bring a curse on you. I will put a curse on the things you receive for your support. I have already put a curse on you. Your blessings are cursed already because you do not take my command seriously.
Malachi 3:9-11
A curse is on all of you because the whole nation is cheating me.