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Haggai 1:6

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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.”

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Haggai 1:6 in other translations

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.

Haggai 1:6 · American Standard Version

Haggai 1:6 in context

  1. 4“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
  2. 5Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.
  3. 6You 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.”
  4. 7This is what Yahweh of Armies says: “Consider your ways.
  5. 8Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.