Haggai 1:10

Haggai 1:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
• New International Version (NIV)Therefore, because of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth its crops.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

Context of Haggai 1:10

8Go up to the hill country, bring lumber and rebuild My house (temple), that I may be pleased with it and be glorified,” says the Lord [accepting it as done for My glory]. 9“You look for much [harvest], but it comes to little; and even when you bring that home, I blow it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house, which lies in ruins while each of you runs to his own house [eager to enjoy it]. Therefore, because of you [that is, your sin and disobedience] the heavens withhold the dew and the earth withholds its produce. 11I called for a drought on the land and the hill country, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands.” 12Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people [who had returned from exile], listened carefully and obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, since the Lord their God had sent him. And the people [reverently] feared the Lord.

Haggai 1:10 word by word

עַל־כֵּ֣ן עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם כָּלְא֥וּ שָמַ֖יִם מִטָּ֑ל וְהָאָ֖רֶץ כָּלְאָ֥ה יְבוּלָֽהּ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Therefore the heavenשָׁמַיִםshâmayim shâmeh · heavenH8064
• over you is stayedכָּלָאkâlâ' · to restrainH3607
• from dewטַלţal · dewH2919
• and the earthאֶ֫רֶץ'erets · land: country/planetH776
• her fruitיְבוּלyebûl · cropsH2981

Cross-references for Haggai 1:10

• Leviticus 26:19I will break your pride in your power, and I will make your sky like iron [giving no rain and blocking all prayers] and your ground like bronze [hard to plow and yielding no produce].
• Deuteronomy 28:23The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze [giving no rain and blocking all prayers], and the earth which is under you, iron [hard to plow and yielding no produce].
• 1 Kings 8:35“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and praise Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,
• 1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As the Lord, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
• Jeremiah 14:1The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
• Hosea 2:9Therefore, I will return and take back My grain at harvest time And My new wine in its season. I will also take away My wool and My flax Given to cover her nakedness.
• Joel 1:18How the animals groan! The herds of cattle are bewildered and wander aimlessly Because they have no pasture; Even the flocks of sheep suffer.

Commentaries on Haggai 1:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew - It appears from the following verse that God had sent a drought upon the land, which threatened them with scarcity and famine.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Therefore, for you, - on your account; (As in Psalm 44:43.) for your sins, (Jon.) He points out the moral cause of the drought, whereas men think of this or that cause of the variations of the seasons, and we, e. g., take into our mouths Scriptural words, as “murrain of cattle,” and the like, and think of nothing less than why it was sent, or who sent it. Haggai directs the mind to the higher Cause, that as they withheld their service from God, so, on…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-15The first message urges the people of Jerusalem to restore proper worship of God.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. heaven ... is stayed from dew--literally, "stays itself." Thus heaven or the sky is personified; implying that inanimate nature obeys Jehovah's will; and, shocked at His people's disobedience, withholds its goods from them (compare Jr 2:12, 13).Read the comment

Topics related to Haggai 1:10

• Famine
• Lukewarmness
• Parsimony (Stinginess)
• Selfishness

In the dictionaries

• Haggai
• Joshua (3)
• Dew

Commentaries on Haggai 1

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings