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Haggai 1:10

Judgment

8 Go up into the hills, bring down lumber, and build the house, so that I may take pleasure in it and be glorified, says the LORD.

9 You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.

11 I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”

12 Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Therefore, on account of you the heavens have withheld their dew and the earth has withheld its crops.
KJV
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
WEB
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
ASV
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.
DARBY
Therefore over you the heavens withhold their dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.
BLB
Upon thus, the heavens above you⁺ withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
ÅB
Derfor har himmelen lukket seg over dere, så den ikke gir dugg, og jorden har holdt sin grøde tilbake.
OTB
Derfor har himmelen holdt tilbake sin dugg
og jorden sin grøde på grunn av dere.
B1930
Derfor har himmelen lukket sig over eder, så den ikke gir dugg, og jorden har holdt sin grøde tilbake.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 1 Kings 8:35

    When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

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  • Leviticus 26:19

    I will break down your stubborn pride and make your sky like iron and your land like bronze,

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  • 1 Kings 17:1

    Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”

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  • Deuteronomy 28:23–24

    The sky over your head will be bronze, and the earth beneath you iron.

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  • Joel 1:18–20

    How the cattle groan! The herds wander in confusion because they have no pasture. Even the flocks of sheep are suffering.

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  • Hosea 2:9

    Therefore I will take back My grain in its time and My new wine in its season; I will take away My wool and linen, which were given to cover her nakedness.

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  • Jeremiah 14:1–6

    This is the word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:

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