Haggai 1:10

Wherefore—on your account, have the heavens, held back, dew,— and, the earth, held back her fruit;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

9When ye looked for much, then lo! it came to little, when ye brought it home, then I did blow into it,— Because of what? Demandeth Yahweh of hosts, Because of my house, the which is in ruins, while ye keep running every man to his own house.

11And I have called for drought, upon the land and upon the mountains, and upon the corn and upon the new wine and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground, bringeth forth,—and upon man, and upon beast, and upon all the labour of the hands.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:23And thy heavens which are over thy head shall become bronze,—and the earth which is under thee iron.

1 Kings 17:1Then said Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, unto Ahab, By the life of Yahweh, God of Israel, before whom I stand, there shall not, these two years, be either dew or rain,—save at the bidding of my word.

Hosea 2:9Therefore, will I again take away my corn, in the time thereof, and my new wine, in the season thereof,—and will recover my wool and my flax [given] to hide her shame.

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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