Parallel Verses
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.
Amplified
Therefore, because of you [that is, your sin and disobedience] the heavens withhold the dew and the earth withholds its produce.
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
Ye look for much and find little; and when ye lock it up at home, I shall blow upon it. Why? said the LORD of the hosts. Because my house is deserted, and ye run each one of you unto his own house.
10 Therefore, because of you the
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:19
And I will break the pride of your stronghold, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as bronze.
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
And thy heavens which are over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee shall be iron.
1 Kings 8:35
When heaven is shut up and there is no rain because they have sinned against thee, if they pray in this place and confess thy name and turn from their sin when thou hast afflicted them,
1 Kings 17:1
Then Elijah, the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead, said unto Ahab, As the LORD God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.
Joel 1:18-20
How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are perplexed because they have no pasture; the flocks of sheep are condemned.
Jeremiah 14:1-6
The word of the LORD that was given to Jeremiah concerning the famine.
Hosea 2:9
Therefore I will return and take away my wheat in the time thereof and my wine in the season thereof and will recover my wool and my flax that I had given to cover her nakedness.