Haggai 1:6
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6 (A)You have sown much, and harvested little. (B)You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who (C)earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
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Haggai 1:9
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9 (A)You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, (B)I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house (C)that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.
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Malachi 3:9-11
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9 (A)You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10 (B)Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby (C)put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open (D)the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. 11 I will rebuke (E)the devourer[a] for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.
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- Malachi 3:11 Probably a name for some crop-destroying pest or pests
Deuteronomy 28:38-40
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38 (A)You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for (B)the locust shall consume it. 39 (C)You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you (D)shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off.
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Haggai 2:16
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16 how did you fare? (A)When[a] one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.
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- Haggai 2:16 Probable reading (compare Septuagint); Hebrew Lord, since they were. When
Hosea 8:7
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7 For (A)they sow the wind,
and they shall reap the whirlwind.
The standing grain has no heads;
it shall yield no flour;
if it were to yield,
(B)strangers would devour it.
Hosea 4:10
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10 (A)They shall eat, but not be satisfied;
they shall play the whore, but not multiply,
because they have forsaken the Lord
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Malachi 2:2
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2 (A)If you will not listen, if you will not take it to heart to give honor to my name, says the Lord of hosts, then I will send (B)the curse upon you and I will curse (C)your blessings. Indeed, I have already cursed them, because you do not lay it to heart.
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Zechariah 8:10
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10 For before those days (A)there was no wage for man or any wage for beast, neither was there any safety from the foe for him who went out or came in, for I set every man against his neighbor.
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Zechariah 5:4
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4 I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of (A)him who swears falsely by my name. And (B)it shall remain in his house and (C)consume it, both timber and stones.”
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Joel 1:10-13
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10 The fields are destroyed,
(A)the ground mourns,
because (B)the grain is destroyed,
(C)the wine dries up,
the oil languishes.
11 (D)Be ashamed,[a] O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
(E)because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 The vine dries up;
(F)the fig tree languishes.
Pomegranate, palm, and apple,
all the trees of the field are dried up,
and (G)gladness dries up
from the children of man.
A Call to Repentance
13 (H)Put on sackcloth and lament, (I)O priests;
(J)wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, (K)pass the night in sackcloth,
(L)O ministers of my God!
(M)Because grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.
Isaiah 5:10
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10 (A)For ten acres[a] of vineyard shall yield but one bath,
and a (B)homer of seed shall yield but an ephah.”[b]
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- Isaiah 5:10 Hebrew ten yoke, the area ten yoke of oxen can plow in a day
- Isaiah 5:10 A bath was about 6 gallons or 22 liters; a homer was about 6 bushels or 220 liters; an ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
Jeremiah 44:18
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18 But since we left off making offerings to (A)the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything (B)and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”
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Jeremiah 14:4
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4 Because of the ground that is dismayed,
since there is (A)no rain on the land,
the farmers are ashamed;
they cover their heads.
Psalm 107:34
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34 (A)a fruitful land into a salty waste,
because of the evil of its inhabitants.
Micah 6:14-15
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14 (A)You shall eat, but not be satisfied,
and there shall be hunger within you;
you shall put away, but not preserve,
and what you preserve I will give to the sword.
15 (B)You shall sow, but not reap;
you shall tread olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
you shall tread grapes, but not drink wine.
Ezekiel 4:16-17
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16 Moreover, he said to me, (A)“Son of man, behold, (B)I will break the supply[a] of bread in Jerusalem. They shall eat bread (C)by weight and with anxiety, and they shall drink water (D)by measure and in dismay. 17 I will do this that they may lack bread and water, and (E)look at one another in dismay, and (F)rot away because of their punishment.
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- Ezekiel 4:16 Hebrew staff
Job 20:28
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28 The possessions of his house will be carried away,
dragged off in the day of God's[a] wrath.
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- Job 20:28 Hebrew his
Job 20:22
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22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;
the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.
1 Kings 17:12
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12 And she said, (A)“As the Lord your God lives, I have nothing baked, only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. And now I am gathering a couple of sticks that I may go in and prepare it for myself and my son, that we may eat it and die.”
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2 Samuel 21:1
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David Avenges the Gibeonites
21 Now there was a famine in the days of David for three years, year after year. And David (A)sought the face of the Lord. And the Lord said, “There is bloodguilt on Saul and on his house, because he put the Gibeonites to death.”
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Leviticus 26:26
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26 (A)When I break your supply[a] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and (B)you shall eat and not be satisfied.
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- Leviticus 26:26 Hebrew staff
Leviticus 26:20
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20 And (A)your strength shall be spent in vain, for (B)your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.
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Amos 4:6-9
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Israel Has Not Returned to the Lord
6 “I gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
and (A)lack of bread in all your places,
(B)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
7 “I also (C)withheld the rain from you
when there were yet three months to the harvest;
(D)I would send rain on one city,
and send no rain on another city;
one field would have rain,
and the field on which it did not rain would wither;
8 so two or three cities (E)would wander to another city
to drink water, and would not be satisfied;
(F)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
9 (G)“I struck you with blight and mildew;
your many gardens and your vineyards,
your fig trees and your olive trees (H)the locust devoured;
(I)yet you did not return to me,”
declares the Lord.
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