Albert Barnes Commentary


Albert Barnes Commentary
"Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit." — Haggai 1:10 (ASV)
Therefore, for you—on your account and for your sins (Jon.)—He points out the moral cause of the drought; whereas people think of this or that cause for the variations of the seasons, and we, for example, may speak Scriptural words, such as murrain of cattle and the like, and yet give no thought to 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.