Haggai 1:10

therefore shall the sky withhold dew, and the earth shall keep back her produce.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9You⌃ looked for much, and there came little; and it was brought into the house, and I blew it away. Therefore thus says the Lord Almighty, Because my house is desolate, and you⌃ run everyone into his own house;

11And I will bring a sword upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and all that the earth produces, and upon the men, and upon the cattle, and upon all the labors of their hands.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:23And you shall have over your head a sky of brass, and the earth under you shall be iron.

1 Kings 17:1And Eliu the prophet, the Thesbite of Thesbae of Galaad, said to Achaab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, + 17:1 Gr. if there shall be, etc. there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the + 17:1 Gr. mouth of my word. word of my mouth.

Hosea 2:9Therefore I will return, and take away my corn in its season, and my wine in its time; and I will take away my raiment and my linen clothes, so that she shall not cover her nakedness.

Matthew Henry on Haggai 1:2-12

Haggai The captivity in Babylon gave a very remarkable turn to the affairs of the Jewish church both in history and prophecy. It is made a signal epocha in our Saviour's genealogy, Matt. i. 17 . Nine of the twelve minor prophets, whose oracles we have been hitherto consulting, lived and preached before that captivity, and most of them had an eye to it in their prophecies, foretelling it as the just punishment of Jerusalem's wickedness. But the last three (in whom the Spirit of prophecy took its period, until it… Read the whole commentary →

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