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."

Deuteronomy 28:38
You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

Nehemiah 5:2
Some were saying, "We and our sons and daughters are numerous. We must get grain in order to eat and stay alive."

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."

Jeremiah 12:13
They 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."

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.

Amos 4:8
People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me," declares the LORD.

Haggai 1:5
Now this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Consider carefully your ways.

Haggai 1:7
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Consider carefully your ways.

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.

Haggai 1:10
Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

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.

Haggai 2:17
I struck you--all the work of your hands--with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.

You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but you have not enough; you drink, but you are not filled with drink; you clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earns wages earns wages to put it into a bag with holes.