Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Therefore the heavens above you have held back the dew, and the earth is held back from her produce.

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 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 You looked for much, and behold, little! And when you brought it home, then I blew on it. Why, says Jehovah of Hosts? Because of My House that is waste, and you, each man runs to his own house. 10 Therefore the heavens above you have held back the dew, and the earth is held back from her produce. 11 And I called for a drought in the land, and on the mountains, and on the grain, and on the new wine, and on the oil, and on that which the ground brings forth, and on men, and on cattle, and on all the labor of your hands.

Cross References

Leviticus 26:19

And I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your heaven like iron and your earth like bronze.

Deuteronomy 28:23-24

And your heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth that is under you iron.

1 Kings 8:35

When the heavens are restrained, and there is no rain because they have sinned against You, if they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and turn from their sin when You afflict them,

1 Kings 17:1

And Elijah the Tishbite, of the sojourners of Gilead, said to Ahab, As Jehovah, the God of Israel lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, except according to my word.

Joel 1:18-20

How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are troubled because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are destroyed.

Jeremiah 14:1-6

The Word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the matter of droughts.

Hosea 2:9

So I will return and take away My grain in its time, and my wine in its season, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

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