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Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.
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Nature's Response to Neglect
Commentators unanimously agree that the drought was not a random natural event. It was a direct consequence of the people's sin. God intentionally withheld the dew and the earth's fruit "on your account" (as multiple scholars translate it) because they had neglected building His house to focus on their own.
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Haggai
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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…
19th Century
Anglican
Over you. —Better, on your account. — Namely, because of the neglect of God’s House, mentioned in Haggai 1:9.
Baptist
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon th…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew Or, "therefore over", or "upon you" F1 ; where should be a st…
Observe the sin of the Jews, after their return from captivity in Babylon. Those employed for God may be driven from their work by a storm, yet the…
