Haggai 1:6

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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 look for much, but behold, it comes to little; when you bring it home, I blow it away. Why?” declares the Lord of hosts, “Because of My house which lies desolate, while each of you runs to his own house.

from that time when one came to a grain heap of twenty measures, there would be only ten; and when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there would be only twenty.

Your strength will be spent uselessly, for your land will not yield its produce and the trees of the land will not yield their fruit.

“You shall bring out much seed to the field but you will gather in little, for the locust will consume it.

Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year; and David sought the presence of the Lord. And the Lord said, “It is for Saul and his bloody house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”

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

“For ten acres of vineyard will yield only one bath of wine,
And a homer of seed will yield but an ephah of grain.”

“Because the ground is cracked,
For there has been no rain on the land;
The farmers have been put to shame,
They have covered their heads.

They will eat, but not have enough;

They will play the harlot, but not increase,
Because they have

stopped giving heed to the Lord.

For they sow the wind
And they reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
It yields no grain.
Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.

The field is ruined,

The land mourns;

For the grain is ruined,
The new wine dries up,
Fresh oil fails.

“But I gave you also cleanness of teeth in all your cities
And lack of bread in all your places,
Yet you have not returned to Me,” declares the Lord.

“You will eat, but you will not be satisfied,
And your vileness will be in your midst.
You will try to remove for safekeeping,
But you will not preserve anything,
And what you do preserve I will give to the sword.

For before those days there was no wage for man or any wage for animal; and for him who went out or came in there was no

peace because of his enemies, and I set all men one against another.

If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to give honor to My name,” says the Lord of hosts, “then I will send the curse upon you and I will curse your blessings; and indeed, I have cursed them already, because you are not taking it to heart.

You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!

With holes

“The increase of his house will depart;
His possessions will flow away in the day of His anger.

I will make it go forth,” declares 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; and it will spend the night within that house and consume it with its timber and stones.”

General references

In the fifth year you are to eat of its fruit, that its yield may increase for you; I am the Lord your God.

When I break your staff of bread, ten women will bake your bread in one oven, and they will bring back your bread in rationed amounts, so that you will eat and not be satisfied.

“Cursed shall be your basket and your kneading bowl.

Honor the Lord from your wealth

And from the first of all your produce;

“You will sow but you will not reap.
You will tread the olive but will not anoint yourself with oil;
And the grapes, but you will not drink wine.

You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you!