Haggai 1:10 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

It is because of you that the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

ASV:

Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.

BBE:

For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

DBY:

Therefore over you the heavens withhold their dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.

ERV:

Therefore for your sake the heaven is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

JPS:

Therefore over you the heaven hath kept back, so that there is no dew, and the earth hath kept back her produce.

WBS:

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.

YLT:

Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.

Haggai 1:10 Cross References

XREF:

Deuteronomy 28:23 "The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you, iron.

Deuteronomy 28:24 "The LORD will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.

1 Kings 17:1 Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As the LORD, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, surely there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word."

Joel 1:18 How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle wander aimlessly Because there is no pasture for them; Even the flocks of sheep suffer. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

1:10 Is stayed - God hath forbidden them, to drop down dew.

MHC:

1:1-11 Observe the sin of the Jews, after their return from captivity in Babylon. Those employed for God may be driven from their work by a storm, yet they must go back to it. They did not say that they would not build a temple, but, Not yet. Thus men do not say they will never repent and reform, and be religious, but, Not yet. And so the great business we were sent into the world to do, is not done. There is a proneness in us to think wrongly of discouragements in our duty, as if they were a discharge from our duty, when they are only for the trial of our courage and faith. They neglected the building of God's house, that they might have more time and money for worldly affairs. That the punishment might answer to the sin, the poverty they thought to prevent by not building the temple, God brought upon them for not building it. Many good works have been intended, but not done, because men supposed the proper time was not come. Thus believers let slip opportunities of usefulness, and sinners delay the concerns of their souls, till too late. If we labour only for the meat that perishes, as the Jews here, we are in danger of losing our labour; but we are sure it shall not be in vain in the Lord, if we labour for the meat which lasts to eternal life. If we would have the comfort and continuance of temporal enjoyments, we must have God as our Friend. See also Lu 12:33. When God crosses our temporal affairs, and we meet with trouble and disappointment, we shall find the cause is, that the work we have to do for God and our own souls is left undone, and we seek our own things more than the things of Christ. How many, who plead that they cannot afford to give to pious or charitable designs, often lavish ten times as much in needless expenses on their houses and themselves! But those are strangers to their own interests, who are full of care to adorn and enrich their own houses, while God's temple in their hearts lies waste. It is the great concern of every one, to apply to the necessary duty of self-examination and communion with our own hearts concerning our spiritual state. Sin is what we must answer for; duty is what we must do. But many are quick-sighted to pry into other people's ways, who are careless of their own. If any duty has been neglected, that is no reason why it should still be so. Whatever God will take pleasure in when done, we ought to take pleasure in doing. Let those who have put off their return to God, return with all their heart, while there is time.

CONC:

Cause Crops Dew Fruit Giving Heaven Heavens Increase Kept Produce Refrained Sake Sky Stayed Withheld Withhold Withholdeth Withholds

Cause Crops Dew Earth Fruit Heaven Heavens Increase Kept Produce Refrained Sake Sky Withheld Withhold Withholdeth Withholds

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