Aggæi 1:10

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Propter hoc super vos prohibiti sunt cæli ne darent rorem,
et terra prohibita est ne daret germen suum:

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et erit in die illa, dicit Dominus, vox clamoris a porta piscium, et ululatus a Secunda, et contritio magna a collibus.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Propter hoc super vos prohibiti sunt caeli, ne darent rorem, et terra prohibita est, ne daret fructum suum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Leviticus 26:19, Deuteronomy 28:23, Deuteronomy 28:24, 1 Kings 8:35, 1 Kings 17:1, Jeremiah 14:1-6, Hosea 2:9, Joel 1:18-20

Reciprocal: Psalms 105:16 - Moreover Psalms 107:37 - which may Amos 4:7 - I have Zechariah 8:12 - the heavens

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew,.... Or, "therefore over", or "upon you" a; where should be a stop; that is, because, of your neglect of the house of God; therefore upon you, and upon you only, and not upon other nations, the heaven is restrained from letting down the dew: or, "therefore I am against you" b; for the above reason, and which the following things show; and sad it is to have God to be an enemy, and against a people! or, "for your sake"; so the Syriac version, to which sense is the Targum,

"therefore for your sins;''

and so Jarchi, "the heaven is stayed from dew"; none descends from it; the Lord, who has the ordering of it, will not suffer it: to have the dew fall upon the earth in the night season is a great blessing; it makes the earth fruitful, revives the corn, plants, and herbs, and causes them to flourish and increase; and to have it restrained is a judgment:

and the earth is stayed [from] her fruit; from bringing forth its increase, which is the consequence of the dew being withheld.

a על-כן עליכם "propterea super vos", Varenius, Reinbeck, Burkius. b "Idcirco contra vos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Therefore, for you, - on your account; (As in Ps. 44:43.) for your sins, (Jon.) He points out the moral cause of the drought, whereas men think of this or that cause of the variations of the seasons, and we, e. g., take into our mouths Scriptural words, as “murrain of cattle,” and the like, and think of nothing less than why it was sent, or who sent it. Haggai directs the mind to the higher Cause, that as they withheld their service from God, so, on their account and by His will, His creatures withheld their service from them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Haggai 1:10. Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew — It appears from the following verse that God had sent a drought upon the land, which threatened them with scarcity and famine.