Charles Ellicott Commentary Haggai 2:17

"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." — Haggai 2:17 (ASV)

I smote you with blasting and with mildew ...—This is a reminiscence of Amos 4:9, I have smitten you with blasting and mildew ... yet have not you returned to me, says the Lord. “Blasting” and “mildew” are two diseases on corn enumerated by Moses (Deuteronomy 28:22) among the curses on disobedience. The “hail” is added by Haggai, perhaps as particularly destructive to the vines. On the peculiar phrase, êyn ethcem êlay, which here takes the place of the lô shabtem âday of Amos, see Ewald, Grammar, § 262 b.