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

8Now go up to the hills to get wood to build my temple again. If you do that, I will be happy. You will worship me there as you should do. 9You thought that you would get a lot of food from the crops that grow in your fields. But only a few plants grew. When you brought your food home, it quickly disappeared. I blew it away! Why do you think all this happened? It happened because my temple is still a heap of stones. At the same time, you all work hard to build your own houses. I, the Almighty Lord, am telling you this! That is why there has been no rain on your fields. That is why your plants do not grow well. 11I have stopped the rain, so that your fields and the hills have become dry. Your crops will not grow. There will be no grapes to make wine. You will not have olives to make oil. Nothing will grow in the ground. Your animals will not become fat. People and animals will all hurt. For all your work, you will get nothing.’ 12Zerubbabel and Joshua, the leader of the priests, as well as all the people obeyed the Lord, their God. They were the people that the Lord had brought back to Jerusalem from Babylon. When they heard the message that Haggai spoke to them, they agreed that it was a message from the Lord. As a result, they respected the Lord and they decided to obey him.

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 26:19He will make them ashamed. He will not send any rain and the land will be hard and dry.
• Deuteronomy 28:23There will be no clouds in the sky above to give any rain. The ground under your feet will be as hard as iron.
• 1 Kings 8:35Sometimes, there may be no rain from the sky because your people have not obeyed you. Then they may turn towards this place and pray to you. They may give honour to your name and turn away from their sins, because you have punished them.
• 1 Kings 17:1There was a prophet called Elijah who came from Tishbe in Gilead. He said to King Ahab, ‘I am a servant of the Lord, Israel's God. As surely as God lives, there will be no rain or dew for the next few years. Nothing will make the ground wet until I command it to happen.’
• Jeremiah 14:1This is the Lord's message that he gave to Jeremiah about the famine:
• Hosea 2:9So now I will take back the grain and the new wine that I gave her at harvest time. I will take away the wool and the linen. She will have no clothes to cover her bare body.
• Joel 1:18The cows make a sad noise. They all move about because they cannot find any grass. Even groups of sheep are hungry.

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