Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

Therefore, because of you the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

So on your account,
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.

Topics

dew

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

כּלא 
Kala' 
Usage: 18

טל 
Tal 
dew
Usage: 31

and the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

is stayed
כּלא 
Kala' 
Usage: 18

References

American

Dew

Fausets

Hastings

Dew

Morish

Dew

Smith

Dew

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 sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce. 11 And I called for a drought upon this land and upon the mountains and upon the wheat and upon the wine and upon the oil and upon that which the earth brings forth and upon the men, and upon the beasts and upon every labour of hands.

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.

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