pSee 2 Cor. 9:6-8
Isaiah 17:10-11
10 For ayou have forgotten the God of your salvationand have not remembered the bRock of your refuge;
therefore, though you plant pleasant plants
and sow the vine-branch of a stranger,
11though you make them grow ▼
▼Or though you carefully fence them
on the day that you plant them,and make them blossom in the morning that you sow,
yet the harvest will flee away ▼
▼Or will be a heap
in a day of grief and incurable pain.
Haggai 1:6
6 eYou have sown much, and harvested little. fYou 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 gearns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.Haggai 2:16-17
16how did you fare? hWhen ▼▼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 jI struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, kyet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord. Malachi 3:8-11
8Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. lBut you say, ‘How have we robbed you?’ mIn your tithes and contributions. 9 nYou are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you. 10 oBring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby pput me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open qthe windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need. 11I will rebuke rthe devourer ▼▼Probably a name for some crop-destroying pest or pests
for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.
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