Haggai 1:6
You have sowed much, and brought in little: you have eaten, but have not had enough: you have drunk, but have not been filled with drink: you have clothed yourselves, but have not been warmed: and he that hath earned wages, put them into a bag with holes.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
5And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways.
7Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set Your hearts upon your ways:
Cross References
Leviticus 26:26After I shall have broken the staff of your bread: so that ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and give it out by weight: and you shall eat, and shall not be filled.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.
1 Kings 17:12And she answered: As the Lord thy God liveth, I have no bread, but only a handful of meal in a pot, and a little oil in a cruse: behold I am gathering two sticks that I may go in and dress it, for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
Job 20:28The offspring of his house shall be exposed, he shall be pulled down in the day of God's wrath.
Proverbs 11:24Some distribute their own goods, and grow richer: others take away what is not their own, and are always in want.
Jeremiah 12:13They have sown wheat, and reaped thorns: they have received an inheritance, and it shall not profit them: you shall be ashamed of your fruits, because of the fierce wrath 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 →