Haggai 2:17
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.
Haggai 2:17 in other translations
| BSB | I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD. |
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| WEB | I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the LORD. |
| ASV | I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah. |
| YLT | I have smitten you with blasting, And with mildew, and with hail--All the work of your hands, And there is none of you with Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. |
| DARBY | I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah. |
| BBE | And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord. |
| Webster | I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD. |
What does Haggai 2:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Haggai 2:10-19
Many spoiled this good work, by going about it with unholy hearts and hands, and were likely to gain no advantage by it. The sum of these two rules of the law is, that sin is more easily learned from others than holiness. The impurity of their hearts and lives shall make the work of their hands, and all their offerings, unclean before God. The case is the same with us. When employed in any good work, we should watch…
Haggai 2:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Haggai 2:17
- Deuteronomy 28:22
The Lord shall smite thee with a consumption, and with a fever, and with an inflammation, and with an extreme burning, and with the sword, and with blasting, and with mildew; and they shall pursue thee until thou perish.
- Haggai 1:11
And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.
- Haggai 1:9
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
- 1 Kings 8:37
If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;
- Amos 4:8-11
So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured them: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
- Jeremiah 5:3
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
- Hosea 7:9-10
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not. And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the Lord their God, nor seek him for all this.
- Jeremiah 8:4-7
Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle. Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
- Genesis 42:6
And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph’s brethren came, and bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
- Isaiah 37:27
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.
- Amos 4:6
And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.
- Revelation 2:21
And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
1:9; Ge 42:6,23,27; De 28:22; 1Ki 8:37; 2Ch 6:28; Isa 37:27; Am 4:9
with hail.
Ex 9:18-29; Isa 28:2
in all.
1:11; Ps 78:46; Isa 62:8; Jer 3:24
yet.
2Ch 28:22; Job 36:13; Isa 9:13; 42:25; Jer 5:3; 6:16,17; 8:4-7
Ho 7:9,10; Am 4:8-11; Zec 1:2-4; 7:9-13; Re 2:21; 9:20,21
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Context
- Haggai 2:16
Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
- Haggai 2:17
I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.
- Haggai 2:18
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider it.
Haggai 2:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Os herí con viento solano, y con tizoncillo, y con granizo en toda obra de vuestras manos; mas no os convertisteis á mí, dice Jehová. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | je vous ai frappés par la brûlure et la rouille et la grêle, dans toute l’œuvre de vos mains, et aucun de vous n’est revenu à moi, dit l’ Éternel: |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ich schlug euch mit Kornbrand und mit Vergilben, und mit Hagel alle Arbeit eurer Hände; und ihr kehrtet nicht zu mir um, spricht Jehova. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Cum accederetis ad acervum viginti modiorum, et fierent decem; et intraretis ad torcular, ut exprimeretis quinquaginta lagenas, et fiebant viginti. |