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 were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

How, when anyone came to a store of twenty measures, there were only ten: when anyone went to the wine-store to get fifty vessels full, there were only twenty.

And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.

You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.

In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

He makes a fertile country into a salt waste, because of the sins of those who are living there.

For ten fields of vines will only give one measure of wine, and a great amount of seed will only give a small measure of grain.

Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

They will have food, but they will not be full; they will be false to me, but they will not be increased, because they no longer give thought to the Lord.

For they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm; his grain has no stem, it will give no meal, and if it does, a strange nation will take it.

The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

You will have food, but not enough; your shame will be ever with you: you will get your goods moved, but you will not take them away safely; and what you do take away I will give to the sword.

For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.

If you will not give ear and take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the Lord of armies, then I will send the curse on you and will put a curse on your blessing: truly, even now I have put a curse on it, because you do not take it to heart.

You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.

With holes

The produce of his house is taken away into another country, like things given into the hands of others in the day of wrath.

And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

General references

But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.

When I take away your bread of life, ten women will be cooking bread in one oven, and your bread will be measured out by weight; you will have food but never enough.

A curse will be on your basket and on your bread-basin.

Give honour to the Lord with your wealth, and with the first-fruits of all your increase:

You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

You are cursed with a curse; for you have kept back from me what is mine, even all this nation.