John Gill Commentary Haggai 1:10

"Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit." — Haggai 1:10 (ASV)

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.