Haggai 1:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.

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Referenced Verses

  • Hag 2:17 : 17 And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.
  • Deut 28:22 : 22 The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete.
  • 1 Kgs 17:1 : 1 And Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, By the living Lord, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.
  • 2 Kgs 8:1 : 1 Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had given back to life, Go now, with all the people of your house, and get a living-place for yourselves wherever you are able; for by the word of the Lord, there will be great need of food in the land; and this will go on for seven years.
  • Job 34:29 : 29 ...
  • Lam 1:21 : 21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.
  • Amos 5:8 : 8 Go for help to him who makes Orion and the Pleiades, by whom the deep dark is turned into morning, who makes the day black with night; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, sending them out over the face of the earth: the Lord is his name;
  • Amos 7:4 : 4 This is what the Lord let me see: and I saw that the Lord God sent for a great fire to be the instrument of his punishment; and, after burning up the great deep, it was about to put an end to the Lord's heritage.
  • Amos 9:6 : 6 It is he who makes his rooms in the heaven, basing his arch on the earth; whose voice goes out to the waters of the sea, and sends them flowing over the face of the earth; the Lord is his name.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Hag 1:9-10
    2 verses
    78%

    9You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.

    10For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

  • Joel 1:10-13
    4 verses
    75%

    10The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.

    11The farmers are shamed, the workers in the vine-gardens give cries of grief, for the wheat and the barley; for the produce of the fields has come to destruction.

    12The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.

    13Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.

  • Amos 4:7-9
    3 verses
    73%

    7And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.

    8So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

    9I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.

  • Hag 1:12
    73%

    12Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people, gave ear to the voice of the Lord their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him, and the people were in fear before the Lord.

  • Deut 11:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

    15And I will give grass in your fields for your cattle, so that you may have food in full measure.

  • Hag 2:17
    73%

    17And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.

  • Hag 2:19-21
    3 verses
    73%

    19Is the seed still in the store-house? have the vine and the fig-tree, the pomegranate and the olive-tree, still not given their fruit? from this day I will send my blessing on you.

    20And the word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai, on the twenty-fourth day of the month, saying,

    21Say to Zerubbabel, ruler of Judah, I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth,

  • Joel 1:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.

    18What sounds of pain come from the beasts! the herds of cattle are at a loss because there is no grass for them; even the flocks of sheep are no longer to be seen.

  • Deut 11:17
    71%

    17For if you do so, the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and the heaven will be shut up so that there is no rain and the land will give no fruit; and in a very little time you will be cut off from the good land which the Lord is giving you.

  • Hag 2:1
    71%

    1In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

  • Jer 50:38
    71%

    38A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.

  • Mal 3:11
    70%

    11And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies

  • Hab 3:17
    70%

    17For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • Jer 14:1
    70%

    1The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.

  • Hag 1:1
    70%

    1In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

  • 2 Chr 7:13
    69%

    13If, at my word, heaven is shut up, so that there is no rain, or if I send locusts on the land for its destruction, or if I send disease on my people;

  • Job 24:11
    69%

    11Between the lines of olive-trees they make oil; though they have no drink, they are crushing out the grapes.

  • Amos 8:11
    69%

    11See, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send times of great need on the land, not need of food or desire for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.

  • Amos 9:5
    69%

    5For the Lord, the God of armies, is he at whose touch the land is turned to water, and everyone in it will be given up to sorrow; all of it will be overflowing like the River, and will go down again like the River of Egypt;

  • Isa 5:6
    69%

    6And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.

  • Isa 42:15
    69%

    15I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.

  • Zech 8:12
    69%

    12For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.

  • Hag 2:10
    69%

    10On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

  • Zech 10:1
    69%

    1Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

  • 2 Chr 6:28
    68%

    28If there is no food in the land, if there is disease, if the fruits of the earth are damaged by heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers: whatever trouble or whatever disease there may be:

  • Nah 1:4
    68%

    4He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

  • Jer 9:10
    68%

    10Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.

  • Jer 14:4
    68%

    4Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.

  • Hos 4:3
    68%

    3Because of this the land will be dry, and everyone living in it will be wasted away, with the beasts of the field and the birds of heaven; even the fishes of the sea will be taken away.

  • Isa 50:2
    68%

    2Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.

  • Isa 3:1
    68%

    1For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;

  • Joel 1:20
    68%

    20The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.

  • Hag 1:3
    68%

    3Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

  • Zeph 1:17
    68%

    17And I will send trouble on men so that they will go about like the blind, because they have done evil against the Lord: and their blood will be drained out like dust, and their strength like waste.

  • Ezek 14:13
    68%

    13Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:

  • Joel 1:5
    68%

    5Come out of your sleep, you who are overcome with wine, and give yourselves to weeping; give cries of sorrow, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine; for it has been cut off from your mouths.

  • Isa 16:10
    68%

    10And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

  • Joel 2:24
    68%

    24And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.

  • Hag 1:6
    67%

    6Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

  • 2 Kgs 3:16
    67%

    16And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes.