Haggai 1:6

"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.’"

Key Reflection

In Haggai 1:6, these verses illustrate the spiritual principle that despite outward efforts and labors, without God's blessing, true fulfillment is unattainable. The imagery of sowing much but reaping little, eating yet remaining hungry, and working hard only to have wages fall through a hole in the bag symbolizes the futility of relying solely on human effort rather than trusting in divine provision.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Ye have sown much -The prophet expresses the habitualness of these visitations by a vivid present. He marks no time and so expresses the more vividly that it was at all times. It is one continually present evil. “Ye have sown much and there is a bringing in little; there is eating and not to satisfy; there is drinking and not to exhilarate; there is clothing and not to be warm It is not for the one or the other years, as, since the first year of Darius Hystaspis; it is one continued visitation, coordinate with one continued negligence. As long as the sin lasted, so long the punishment.

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