Hāgāishū 1:10

10 SuǒYǐwèi nǐmen de yuángù , tiān jiù bù jiàng gān lòu , dì yĕ bù chū tǔchǎn .

Hāgāishū 1:10 Meaning and Commentary

Haggai 1:10

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew
Or, "therefore over", or "upon you" ^F1; 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" ^F2; 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F1 (Mkyle Nk-le) "propterea super vos", Varenius, Reinbeck, Burkius.
F2 "Idcirco contra vos", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator.

Hāgāishū 1:10 In-Context

8 Nǐmen yào shang shān qǔ mù liào , jiànzào zhè diàn . wǒ jiù yīncǐ xǐlè , qiĕ dé róngyào . zhè shì Yēhéhuá shuō de .

9 Nǐmen pànwàng duō dé , suǒ dé de què shǎo . nǐmen shōu dào jiā zhōng , wǒ jiù chuī qù . zhè shì wèishénme ne , yīnwei wǒde diàn huāngliáng , nǐmen gèrén què gù ( yuánwén zuò bēn ) zìjǐ de fángwū . zhè shì wàn jūn zhī Yēhéhuá shuō de .

10 SuǒYǐwèi nǐmen de yuángù , tiān jiù bù jiàng gān lòu , dì yĕ bù chū tǔchǎn .

11 Wǒ méng gān hàn líndào dì tǔ , shāngāng , wǔgǔ , xīn jiǔ , hé yóu , bìng dì shang de chūchǎn , rénmín , shēngchù , yǐjí rén shǒu yīqiè laólù dé lái de .

12 Nàshí , Sǎlātiĕ de érzi Suǒluóbābó , hé yuē sǎ dá de érzi Dàjìsī Yuēshūyà , bìng shèngxia de bǎixìng , dōu tīng cóng Yēhéhuá tāmen shén de huà , hé xiānzhī hǎ gāi fèng Yēhéhuá tāmen shén chāi lái suǒ shuō de huà . bǎixìng yĕ zaì Yēhéhuá miànqián cún jìngwèi de xīn .