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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.”

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
זְרַעְתֶּ֨םze.ra'.Temyou have sownH2232 →
הַרְבֵּ֜הhar.BehmuchH7235 →
וְהָבֵ֣אve.ha.Ve'and you have broughtH935 →
מְעָ֗טme.'AtlittleH4592 →
אָכ֤וֹל'a.Kholyou have eatenH398 →
וְאֵין־ve.'ein-and notH369 →
לְשָׂבְעָה֙le.sa.ve.'Ahto satietyH7654 →
שָׁת֣וֹsha.Toyou have drunkH8354 →
וְאֵין־ve.'ein-and notH369 →
לְשָׁכְרָ֔הle.sha.khe.Rahto become drunkH7937 →
לָב֖וֹשׁla.Vo.oshyou have dressedH3847 →
וְאֵין־ve.'ein-and notH369 →
לְחֹ֣םle.Chomto be warmH2552 →
ל֑וֹloto him
וְהַ֨מִּשְׂתַּכֵּ֔רve.Ham.mis.ta.Kerand the [one who] earns wagesH7936 →
מִשְׂתַּכֵּ֖רmis.ta.Ker[is] earning wagesH7936 →
אֶל־'el-toH413 →
צְר֥וֹרtze.Rora bagH6872 →
נָקֽוּב׃ פna.KuvpiercedH5344 →

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Haggai 1:9You 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.Hosea 4:10They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.Deuteronomy 28:38–40You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.Proverbs 11:24One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.Malachi 3:9–11You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.Haggai 2:16from 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 8:7For 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 2:2If you do not listen, and if you do not take it to heart to honor My name,” says the LORD of Hosts, “I will send a curse among you, and I will curse your blessings. Yes, I have already begun to curse them, because you are not taking it to heart.Isaiah 5:10For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”Zechariah 5:4I 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.”Zechariah 8:10For before those days neither man nor beast received wages, nor was there safety from the enemy for anyone who came or went, for I had turned every man against his neighbor.2 Samuel 21:1During the reign of David there was a famine for three successive years, and David sought the face of the LORD. And the LORD said, “It is because of the blood shed by Saul and his family, because he killed the Gibeonites.”Psalms 107:34and fruitful land into fields of salt, because of the wickedness of its dwellers.Joel 1:10–13The field is ruined; the land mourns. For the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the oil fails.Jeremiah 14:4The ground is cracked because no rain has fallen on the land. The farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.Leviticus 26:26When 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.Leviticus 26:20and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.Jeremiah 12:13They have sown wheat but harvested thorns. They have exhausted themselves to no avail. Bear the shame of your harvest because of the fierce anger of the LORD.”

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