Haggai 1:6 “You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have eno…”

Haggai 1:6

You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but never have enough. You drink but never have your fill. You put on clothes but never get warm. You earn wages to put into a bag pierced through.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’

American Standard Version

Geneva Bible 1599

Ye haue sowen much, and bring in litle: ye eate, but ye haue not ynough: ye drinke, but ye are not filled: ye clothe you, but ye be not warme: and he that earneth wages, putteth the wages into a broken bagge.

Darby Translation

Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but are not satisfied; ye drink, but are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes.

Young's Literal Translation

Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

Bible in Basic English

Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

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Cross references

“have”

Haggai 1:9 Deuteronomy 28:38–40 Hosea 4:10 Haggai 2:16 Hosea 8:7 Malachi 3:9–11

Haggai 1:9 · BSB

You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Deuteronomy 28:38–40 · BSB

You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

Hosea 4:10 · BSB

They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have abandoned the LORD to give themselves

Haggai 2:16 · BSB

from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.

Hosea 8:7 · BSB

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. There is no standing grain; what sprouts fails to yield flour. Even if it should produce, the foreigners would swallow it up.

Malachi 3:9–11 · BSB

You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.

“eat”

Leviticus 26:26 1 Kings 17:12 Job 20:22 Jeremiah 44:18 Ezekiel 4:16 Ezekiel 4:17

Leviticus 26:26 · BSB

When I cut off your supply of bread, ten women will bake your bread in a single oven and dole out your bread by weight, so that you will eat but not be satisfied.

1 Kings 17:12 · BSB

But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and m…

Job 20:22 · BSB

In the midst of his plenty, he will be distressed; the full force of misery will come upon him.

Jeremiah 44:18 · BSB

But from the time we stopped burning incense to the Queen of Heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been perishing by sword and famine.”

Ezekiel 4:16 · BSB

Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.

Ezekiel 4:17 · BSB

So they will lack food and water; they will be appalled at the sight of one another wasting away in their iniquity.

“with holes”

Zechariah 5:4 Job 20:28

Zechariah 5:4 · BSB

I will send it out, declares the LORD of Hosts, and it will enter the house of the thief and the house of him who swears falsely by My name. It will remain inside his house and destroy it, down to its timbers and stones.…

Job 20:28 · BSB

The possessions of his house will be removed, flowing away on the day of God’s wrath.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

5Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

7This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

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