Haggai 1:10

10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.

Haggai 1:10 in Other Translations

10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

10 Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.

10 It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops.

10 hat's why. Because of your stinginess. And so I've given you a dry summer and a skimpy crop.

10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.

10 It is because of you that the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce.

10 So on your account, the skies have withheld the dew and the land its crops.

10 "So because of what you have done, the heavens have held back the dew. And the earth has not produced its crops.

Haggai 1:10 Meaning and Commentary

Haggai 1:10

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew
Or, "therefore over", or "upon you" ^F1; where should be a stop; that is, because, of your neglect of the house of God; therefore upon you, and upon you only, and not upon other nations, the heaven is restrained from letting down the dew: or, "therefore I am against you" ^F2; for the above reason, and which the following things show; and sad it is to have God to be an enemy, and against a people! or, "for your sake"; so the Syriac version, to which sense is the Targum,

``therefore for your sins;''

and so Jarchi, "the heaven is stayed from dew"; none descends from it; the Lord, who has the ordering of it, will not suffer it: to have the dew fall upon the earth in the night season is a great blessing; it makes the earth fruitful, revives the corn, plants, and herbs, and causes them to flourish and increase; and to have it restrained is a judgment: and the earth is stayed [from] her fruit;
from bringing forth its increase, which is the consequence of the dew being withheld.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (Mkyle Nk-le) "propterea super vos", Varenius, Reinbeck, Burkius.
F2 "Idcirco contra vos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Haggai 1:10 In-Context

8 Go up into the mountains and bring down timber and build my house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be honored,” says the LORD.

9 “You expected much, but see, it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew away. Why?” declares the LORD Almighty. “Because of my house, which remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.

10 Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.

11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil and everything else the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”

12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of the people obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the message of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.

Cross References

• 1. S Deuteronomy 28:24
• 2. S Genesis 27:28; 1 Kings 17:1
• 3. Leviticus 26:19; Deuteronomy 28:23