Charles Ellicott Commentary Haggai 2:19

"Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth; from this day will I bless [you]." — Haggai 2:19 (ASV)

Is the seed yet in the barn?—that is, there is no grain yet in the barn, the harvest having been blighted in the last season. The term rendered in the Authorized Version “seed” does not imply grain for sowing, but grain for provision.

The fruit harvest was as defective as that of cereals, having been cut off by the hail. (See Haggai 2:17.) The prospect was thus one of deepest gloom. But human helplessness is God’s opportunity. He pledges His word even at this crisis by the mouth of Haggai, From this day I will bless.