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 You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house. 10 Therefore, because of you the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce. 11 I brought drought on the land and its hills, grain fields, vineyards, and olive orchards. Yes drought on every crop the ground produces, on people and animals, on everything you try to grow.

Cross References

Leviticus 26:19

I will crush your arrogance. You will have no rain, and your land will be as hard as cement.

Deuteronomy 28:23-24

The sky above will look like copper and the ground below will be as hard as iron.

1 Kings 8:35

When you hold back the rain because your people have sinned against you. And when they repent in this Temple, humbly praying to you,

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab: By the living Jehovah, the God of Israel, whose servant I am, there will be no dew or rain in these years, but only at my word.

Joel 1:18-20

How the beasts groan! The herds of cattle wander about because they have no pasture. The flocks of sheep suffer.

Jeremiah 14:1-6

Jehovah spoke his word about the drought to Jeremiah:

Hosea 2:9

Therefore I will take back my grain at that time, and my new wine in the season. I will pluck away my wool and my flax that should have covered her nakedness.

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