Haggai 1:6

You sowed much and have brought in little. You consumed and have not been satisfied. You drank and have not been inebriated. You covered yourselves and have not been warmed. And whoever gathered wages, has put them in a bag with holes.

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In The 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.

In Context

5And now, thus says the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways.

7Thus says the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:26After this, I will have broken the staff of your bread, so that ten women bake bread in one oven, and distribute it by weight. And you shall eat and not be filled.

Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything.

1 Kings 17:12And she responded: “As the Lord your God lives, I have no bread, except a handful of flour in a jar, and a little oil in a bottle. See, I am collecting a couple of sticks, so that I may go in and make it for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”

Job 20:28The offspring of his house will be exposed; he will be pulled down in the day of God’s wrath.

Proverbs 11:24Some distribute their own goods, and they become wealthier. Others seize what is not their own, and they are always in need.

Jeremiah 12:13They sowed wheat, but they reaped thorns. They received an inheritance, but it will not benefit them. You will be confounded by your own fruits, because of the wrath of the fury of the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Haggai 1:2-12

Haggai The captivity in Babylon gave a very remarkable turn to the affairs of the Jewish church both in history and prophecy. It is made a signal epocha in our Saviour's genealogy, Matt. i. 17 . Nine of the twelve minor prophets, whose oracles we have been hitherto consulting, lived and preached before that captivity, and most of them had an eye to it in their prophecies, foretelling it as the just punishment of Jerusalem's wickedness. But the last three (in whom the Spirit of prophecy took its period, until it… Read the whole commentary →

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