Haggai 1:6

4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

5 Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

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.”

7 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Consider carefully your ways.

8 Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
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.”
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.
WEB
You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don’t have enough. You drink, but you aren’t filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it.’
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.
DARBY
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but are not satisfied; ye drink, but are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes.
BLB
You⁺ have sown much, and you have brought in little; you eat, and not to satisfaction; you drink, and not to drunkenness; One wears clothes, and there is no warmth to it; and the wage earner earns wages into a bag pierced through.”
ÅB
Dere sår meget, men høster lite i hus; dere spiser, men blir ikke mette; dere drikker, men blir ikke utørste; dere klær dere, men ingen blir varm, og den som tjener for lønn, får sin lønn i en hullet pung.
OTB
Dere har sådd mye, men høstet lite.
Dere spiser, men blir aldri mette.
Dere drikker, men får aldri nok.
Dere kler dere, men ingen blir varm.
Og den som tjener lønn, gjør det for å legge den i en pung med hull."
B1930
I sår meget, men høster lite i hus; I eter, men blir ikke mette; I drikker, men blir ikke utørste; I klær eder, men ingen blir varm, og den som tjener for lønn, får sin lønn i en hullet pung.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Haggai 1:9

    You 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.

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  • Hosea 4:10

    They will eat but not be satisfied; they will be promiscuous but not multiply. For they have stopped obeying the LORD.

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  • Deuteronomy 28:38–40

    You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

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  • Haggai 2:16

    from 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.

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  • Hosea 8:7

    For 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.

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  • Malachi 3:9–11

    You are cursed with a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.

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  • Malachi 2:2

    If 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.

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  • Isaiah 5:10

    For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain.”

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