Haggai 2:17

¹⁵ Now consider carefully from this day forward: Before one stone was placed on another in the temple of the LORD,

¹⁶ from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.

I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.

¹⁸ Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:

¹⁹ Is there still seed in the barn? The vine, the fig, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yet yielded fruit. But from this day on, I will bless you.”

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.

Compare

BSB: I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.
KJV: I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
WEB: I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the LORD.
ASV: I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye [turned] not to me, saith Jehovah.
DARBY: I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and ye [turned] not to me, saith Jehovah.
BLB: I struck you⁺ with the blight and with mildew and with hail, all the work of your⁺ hands, and you⁺ [were] not with Me, a declaration of YHWH.

ÅB: Jeg slo dere med kornbrann og rust og hagl i all deres henders gjerning; men dere vendte dere ikke til meg, sier Herren.
OTB: Jeg rammet alt arbeidet av deres hender
med kornbrann, meldugg og hagl,
men dere vendte ikke tilbake til meg,’ erklærer Herren.
B1930: Jeg slo eder med kornbrand og rust og hagl i all eders henders gjerning; men I vendte eder ikke til mig, sier Herren.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Deuteronomy 28:22
The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.
Read in context
Haggai 1:11
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.”
Read in context
Haggai 1:9
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.
Read in context
1 Kings 8:37
When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,
Read in context
Amos 4:8–11
People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
Read in context
Jeremiah 5:3
O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.
Read in context
Hosea 7:9–10
Foreigners consume his strength, but he does not notice. Even his hair is streaked with gray, but he does not know.
Read in context
Jeremiah 8:4–7
So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
Read in context