Haggai 2:19
17 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.
18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid, consider it.
Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
20 And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 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.”
- KJV
- Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.
- WEB
- Is the seed yet in the barn? Yes, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree haven’t produced. From today I will bless you.’”
- ASV
- Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth; from this day will I bless [you].
- DARBY
- Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth: from this day will I bless [you].
- BLB
- Is the seed still in the barn? Until now the vine and the fig tree and the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne; from this day I will bless.”
- ÅB
- Er det enda sæd i kornboden? Enda har hverken vintreet eller fikentreet eller granatepletreet eller oljetreet båret noe. Men fra denne dag vil jeg velsigne.
- OTB
- Er det noe frø igjen i låven?
Inntil nå har vintreet, fikentreet, granateplet og oliventreet
ikke båret frukt.
Men fra denne dagen vil jeg velsigne dere.’” - B1930
- Er det ennu sæd i kornboden? Ennu har hverken vintreet eller fikentreet eller granatepletreet eller oljetreet båret noget. Men fra denne dag vil jeg velsigne.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Malachi 3:10
Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
Read in contextHabakkuk 3:17–18
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:
Read in contextProverbs 3:9–10
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
Read in contextMatthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Read in contextZechariah 8:11–15
But now I will not be unto the residue of this people as in the former days, saith the LORD of hosts.
Read in contextGenesis 26:12
Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year an hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 15:10
Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.
Read in contextPsalms 84:12
O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
Read in context