Haggai 1:6
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6 “You have (A)sown much, and bring in little;
You eat, but do not have enough;
You drink, but you are not filled with drink;
You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;
And (B)he who earns wages,
Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”
Haggai 1:9
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9 (A)“You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, (B)I blew it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house.
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Malachi 3:9-11
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9 You are cursed with a curse,
For you have robbed Me,
Even this whole nation.
10 (A)Bring all the tithes into the (B)storehouse,
That there may be food in My house,
And try Me now in this,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“If I will not open for you the (C)windows of heaven
And (D)pour out for you such blessing
That there will not be room enough to receive it.
11 “And I will rebuke (E)the devourer for your sakes,
So that he will not destroy the fruit of your ground,
Nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in the field,”
Says the Lord of hosts;
Deuteronomy 28:38-40
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38 (A)“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for (B)the locust shall [a]consume it. 39 You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the (C)wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off.
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- Deuteronomy 28:38 devour
Haggai 2:16
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16 since those days, (A)when one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, there were but twenty.
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Hosea 8:7
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7 “They(A) sow the wind,
And reap the whirlwind.
The stalk has no bud;
It shall never produce meal.
If it should produce,
(B)Aliens would swallow it up.
Hosea 4:10
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10 For (A)they shall eat, but not have enough;
They shall commit harlotry, but not increase;
Because they have ceased obeying the Lord.
Malachi 2:2
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2 (A)If you will not hear,
And if you will not take it to heart,
To give glory to My name,”
Says the Lord of hosts,
“I will send a curse upon you,
And I will curse your blessings.
Yes, I have cursed them (B)already,
Because you do not take it to heart.
Zechariah 8:10
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10 For before these days
There were no (A)wages for man nor any hire for beast;
There was no peace from the enemy for whoever went out or came in;
For I set all men, everyone, against his neighbor.
Zechariah 5:4
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4 “I will send out the curse,” says the Lord of hosts;
“It shall enter the house of the (A)thief
And the house of (B)the one who swears falsely by My name.
It shall remain in the midst of his house
And consume (C)it, with its timber and stones.”
Joel 1:10-13
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10 The field is wasted,
(A)The land mourns;
For the grain is ruined,
(B)The new wine is dried up,
The oil fails.
11 (C)Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
12 (D)The vine has dried up,
And the fig tree has withered;
The pomegranate tree,
The palm tree also,
And the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are withered;
Surely (E)joy has withered away from the sons of men.
Mourning for the Land
13 (F)Gird yourselves and lament, you priests;
Wail, you who minister before the altar;
Come, lie all night in sackcloth,
You who minister to my God;
For the grain offering and the drink offering
Are withheld from the house of your God.
Isaiah 5:10
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10 For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one (A)bath,[a]
And a homer of seed shall yield one [b]ephah.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 5:10 1 bath=1⁄10 homer
- Isaiah 5:10 1 ephah=1⁄10 homer
Jeremiah 44:18
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18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine.”
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Jeremiah 14:4
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4 Because the ground is parched,
For there was (A)no rain in the land,
The plowmen were ashamed;
They covered their heads.
Psalm 107:34
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Footnotes
- Psalm 107:34 Lit. a salty waste
Micah 6:14-15
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14 (A)You shall eat, but not be satisfied;
[a]Hunger shall be in your midst.
You may carry some away,[b] but shall not save them;
And what you do rescue I will give over to the sword.
15 “You shall (B)sow, but not reap;
You shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil;
And make sweet wine, but not drink wine.
Footnotes
- Micah 6:14 Or Emptiness or Humiliation
- Micah 6:14 Tg., Vg. You shall take hold
Ezekiel 4:16-17
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16 Moreover He said to me, “Son of man, surely I will cut off the (A)supply of bread in Jerusalem; they shall (B)eat bread by weight and with anxiety, and shall (C)drink water by measure and with dread, 17 that they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed with one another, and (D)waste away because of their iniquity.
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Job 20:28
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28 The increase of his house will depart,
And his goods will flow away in the day of His (A)wrath.
Job 20:22
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22 In his self-sufficiency he will be in distress;
Every hand of [a]misery will come against him.
Footnotes
- Job 20:22 Or the wretched or sufferer
1 Kings 17:12
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12 So she said, “As the Lord your God lives, I do not have bread, only a handful of flour in a bin, and a little oil in a [a]jar; and see, 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 (A)die.”
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- 1 Kings 17:12 Lit. pitcher or water jar
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)inquired of the Lord. And the Lord answered, “It is because of Saul and his [a]bloodthirsty house, because he killed the Gibeonites.”
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- 2 Samuel 21:1 Lit. house of bloodshed
Leviticus 26:26
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26 (A)When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, (B)and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
Leviticus 26:20
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20 And your (A)strength shall be spent in vain;
for your (B)land shall not yield its produce, nor shall the trees of the land yield their fruit.
Amos 4:6-9
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Israel Did Not Accept Correction
6 “Also I gave you [a]cleanness of teeth in all your cities,
And lack of bread in all your places;
(A)Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
7 “I also withheld rain from you,
When there were still three months to the harvest.
I made it rain on one city,
I withheld rain from another city.
One part was rained upon,
And where it did not rain the part withered.
8 So two or three cities wandered to another city to drink water,
But they were not satisfied;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
9 “I(B) blasted you with blight and mildew.
When your gardens increased,
Your vineyards,
Your fig trees,
And your olive trees,
(C)The locust devoured them;
Yet you have not returned to Me,”
Says the Lord.
Footnotes
- Amos 4:6 Hunger
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