Hag 1:6, 9-11, 2:16-19 | ESV | STEP | You have sown much , and harvested little . 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 earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes .

6 ^aYou have sown much, and harvested little. ^bYou 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 ^cearns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

Haggai 1:9-11

9 ^dYou looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, ^eI blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house ^fthat lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. 10 Therefore ^gthe heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 11 And ^hI have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on ⁱthe grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and ^jon all their labors.”

Haggai 2:16-19

16 how did you fare? ^kWhen ^{▼▼Probable reading (compare Septuagint); Hebrew Lord, since they were. When} 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. 17 ^mI struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, ⁿyet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. 18 ^oConsider from this day onward, ^pfrom the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since ^qthe day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, ^rconsider: 19 ^sIs the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on ^tI will bless you.”