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 looked for much, and behold, little! And when you brought it home, then I blew on it. Why, says Jehovah of Hosts? Because of My House that is waste, and you, each man runs to his own house.

from then onward, one came to a heap of twenty measures, and there were but ten; one came to the wine vat to draw off fifty from the winepress, and there were but twenty.

And your strength shall be spent in vain. For your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the field yield their fruits.

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

And there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year. And David inquired of Jehovah. And Jehovah answered, For Saul, and for his bloody house, because he killed the Gibeonites.

a fruitful land to a salty desert, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.

Because the ground was cracked, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed; they covered their heads.

For they shall eat and not have enough. They shall fornicate and not increase, because they have stopped taking heed to Jehovah.

For they sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal; if it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.

The field is wasted; the land mourns, for the grain is wasted. The new wine is dried up; the oil tree droops.

And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places, and you have not returned to Me, says Jehovah.

You shall eat, but not be satisfied; and your casting down shall be in your midst. And you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and that which you deliver I will give up to the sword.

For before these days there was no payment for man, nor was there payment for animal; and there was no peace to him from the adversary who went out or came in. For I sent every man, a man against his neighbor.

If you will not hear, and if you will not set it on your heart to give glory to My name, says Jehovah of Hosts, then I will send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings. And indeed I have cursed it, because you do not set it on your heart.

You are cursed with a curse; for you are robbing Me, the nation, all of it.

With holes

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

I will bring it forth, says Jehovah 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 remain in the midst of his house, and shall devour it, and its timber and its stones.

General references

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

When I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight. And you shall eat and not be satisfied.

Your basket and your store shall be cursed.

Honor Jehovah with your substance, and with the firstfruits of all your increase;

You shall sow, but you shall not reap; you shall tread the olives, but you shall not anoint yourself with oil; and sweet wine, but shall not drink wine.

You are cursed with a curse; for you are robbing Me, the nation, all of it.