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

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

Through all that time, when a man came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were but ten. When he came to the wine vat to draw out fifty [vessels], there were but twenty.

and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.

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

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

a fruitful land into a salt desert, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.

because of the ground which is cracked. Because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame; they cover their heads.

And they shall eat, and not have enough. They shall play the harlot, and shall not increase, because they have left off taking heed to LORD.

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. He has no standing grain. The blade shall yield no meal. If so be it yields, strangers shall swallow it up.

The field is laid waste; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes.

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places, yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.

Thou shall eat, but not be satisfied, and thy humiliation shall be in the midst of thee. And thou shall put away, but shall not save, and that which thou save I will give up to the sword.

For before those days there was no wage for man, nor any wage for beast, nor was there any peace to him who went out or came in, because of the adversary. For I set all men each one against his neighbor.

If ye will not hear, and if ye will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name, says LORD of hosts, then I will send the curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. Yea, I have cursed them already, because ye do not lay it

Ye are cursed with the curse, for ye rob me, even this whole nation.

With holes

The increase of his house shall depart, flowed away in the day of his wrath.

I will cause it to go forth, says LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name. And it shall abide in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the

General references

And in the fifth year ye shall eat of the fruit of it, that it may yield to you the increase of it. I am LORD your God.

When I break your staff of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver your bread again by weight, and ye shall eat, and not be satisfied.

Cursed shall be thy basket and thy kneading-trough.

Honor LORD with thy substance, and with the first-fruits of all thine increase,

Thou shall sow, but shall not reap, thou shall tread the olives, but shall not anoint thee with oil, and the vintage, but shall not drink the wine.

Ye are cursed with the curse, for ye rob me, even this whole nation.