English Standard Version
Haggai 1:10
10Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
- New Living Translation (NLT)It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops.
Context of Haggai 1:10
8Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord. 9You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 11And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors." 12Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him. And the people feared the Lord.
Read all of Haggai 1Haggai 1:10 word by word
עַל־כֵּ֣ן עֲלֵיכֶ֔ם כָּלְא֥וּ שָמַ֖יִם מִטָּ֑ל וְהָאָ֖רֶץ כָּלְאָ֥ה יְבוּלָֽהּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Haggai 1:10
- Leviticus 26:19and I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heavens like iron and your earth like bronze.
- Deuteronomy 28:23And the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron.
- 1 Kings 8:35"When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against you, if they pray toward this place and acknowledge your name and turn from their sin, when you afflict them,
- 1 Kings 17:1Now Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in 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 take back my grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and I will take away my wool and my flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
- Joel 1:18How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because there is no pasture for them; 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
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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
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