Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Wherefore the heaven is forbidden to give you any dew, and the earth is forbidden to give you increase.
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.
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 looked for much, and lo it is come to little: and though ye bring it home, yet do I blow it away. And why so, sayeth the LORD of Hosts? Even because that my house lieth so waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. 10 Wherefore the heaven is forbidden to give you any dew, and the earth is forbidden to give you increase. 11 I have called for a drought, both upon the land and upon the mountains, upon corn, upon wine, and upon oil, upon everything that the ground bringeth forth, upon men and upon cattle, yea and upon all handy labour."
Names
Cross References
Leviticus 26:19
and will break the pride of your strength. For I will make the heaven over you as hard as iron, and your land as hard as brass.
Deuteronomy 28:23-24
"And the heaven that is over thy head shall be brass, and the earth that is under thee, iron.
1 Kings 8:35
If heaven be shut up, that there be no rain, because they have sinned against thee: yet if they pray in this place and praise thy name and turn from their sins, through thy scourging of them:
1 Kings 17:1
And Elijah the Tishbite, which was of the inhabiters of Gilead, said unto Ahab, "As truly as the LORD God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall be neither dew nor rain these years, save as I appoint it."
Joel 1:18-20
O what a fighting make the cattle? The bullocks are very evil liking, because they have no pasture: and the sheep are famished away.
Jeremiah 14:1-6
The word of the LORD showed unto Jeremiah, concerning the dearth of the fruits.
Hosea 2:9
Wherefore now will I go take my corn and wine again in their season, and fet again my wool and my flax, which I gave her to cover her shame.