Parallel Verses
Amplified
Therefore, because of you [that is, your sin and disobedience] the heavens withhold the dew and the earth withholds its produce.
New American Standard Bible
Therefore, because of you the
King James Version
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
Holman Bible
the skies have withheld the dew
and the land its crops.
International Standard Version
That is why the heavens keep withholding dew from you, and the earth withholds her fruit.
A Conservative Version
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
American Standard Version
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.
Bible in Basic English
For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.
Darby Translation
Therefore over you the heavens withhold their dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.
Julia Smith Translation
For this the heavens over you were shut up from dew, and the earth withheld her produce.
King James 2000
Therefore the heavens over you withholds the dew, and the earth withholds her fruit.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore, because of you [the] heavens have withheld [the] dew and the earth has withheld its produce.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore the heavens above you have held back the dew, and the earth is held back from her produce.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore the heaven is forbidden to give you any dew, and the earth is forbidden to give you increase.
NET Bible
This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
The Emphasized Bible
Wherefore - on your account, have the heavens, held back, dew, - and, the earth, held back her fruit;
Webster
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.
World English Bible
Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
Youngs Literal Translation
Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.
Themes
Fruits » Often destroyed » By drought
Parsimony (stinginess) » Punishment of
The Second Temple » The jews punished for not persevering in building
Interlinear
Kala'
Word Count of 20 Translations in Haggai 1:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Temple Lies In Ruins
9 You look for much [harvest], but it comes to little; and even when you bring that home, I blow it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house, which lies in ruins while each of you runs to his own house [eager to enjoy it]. 10 Therefore, because of you [that is, your sin and disobedience] the heavens withhold the dew and the earth withholds its produce. 11 I called for a drought on the land and the hill country, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on what the ground produces, on men, on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands.”
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:19
I will break your pride in your power, and I will make your sky like iron [giving no rain and blocking all prayers] and your ground like bronze [hard to plow and yielding no produce].
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze [giving no rain and blocking all prayers], and the earth which is under you, iron [hard to plow and yielding no produce].
1 Kings 8:35
“When the heavens are shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and praise Your name and turn from their sin when You afflict them,
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, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, except by my word.”
Joel 1:18-20
How the animals groan!
The herds of cattle are bewildered and wander aimlessly
Because they have no pasture;
Even the flocks of sheep suffer.
Jeremiah 14:1-6
The word of the Lord that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought:
Hosea 2:9
“Therefore, I will return and take back My grain at harvest time
And My new wine in its season.
I will also take away My wool and My flax
Given to cover her nakedness.