Haggai 2:17 “I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail,…”

Haggai 2:17

I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

World English Bible

I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn’t turn to me,’ says the LORD.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Before these things were, when one came to an heape of twentie measures, there were but ten: when one came to the wine presse for to drawe out fiftie vessels out of the presse, there were but twentie.

Darby Translation

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and ye [turned] not to me, saith Jehovah.

Young's Literal Translation

I have smitten you with blasting, And with mildew, and with hail — All the work of your hands, And there is none of you with Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

Bible in Basic English

And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.

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Cross references

“with blasting”

Deuteronomy 28:22 Haggai 1:9 1 Kings 8:37 Genesis 42:6 Genesis 42:23 Genesis 42:27

Deuteronomy 28:22 · BSB

The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, with fever and inflammation, with scorching heat and drought, and with blight and mildew; these will pursue you until you perish.

Haggai 1:9 · BSB

You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

1 Kings 8:37 · BSB

When famine or plague comes upon the land, or blight or mildew or locusts or grasshoppers, or when their enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever plague or sickness may come,

Genesis 42:6 · BSB

Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they bowed down before him with their faces to the ground.

Genesis 42:23 · BSB

They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.

Genesis 42:27 · BSB

At the place where they lodged for the night, one of them opened his sack to get feed for his donkey, and he saw his silver in the mouth of the sack.

“with hail”

Exodus 9:18–29 Isaiah 28:2

Exodus 9:18–29 · BSB

Behold, at this time tomorrow I will rain down the worst hail that has ever fallen on Egypt, from the day it was founded until now.

Isaiah 28:2 · BSB

Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty. Like a hailstorm or destructive tempest, like a driving rain or flooding downpour, he will smash that crown to the ground.

“in all”

Haggai 1:11 Psalm 78:46 Isaiah 62:8 Jeremiah 3:24

Haggai 1:11 · BSB

I have summoned a drought on the fields and on the mountains, on the grain, new wine, and oil, and on whatever the ground yields, on man and beast, and on all the labor of your hands.”

Psalm 78:46 · BSB

He gave their crops to the grasshopper, the fruit of their labor to the locust.

Isaiah 62:8 · BSB

The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain to your enemies for food, nor will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled.

Jeremiah 3:24 · BSB

From our youth, that shameful god has consumed what our fathers have worked for— their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.

“yet”

Amos 4:8–11 Jeremiah 5:3 2 Chronicles 28:22 Job 36:13 Isaiah 9:13 Isaiah 42:25

Amos 4:8–11 · BSB

People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

2 Chronicles 28:22 · BSB

In the time of his distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.

Job 36:13 · BSB

The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.

Isaiah 9:13 · BSB

But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts.

Isaiah 42:25 · BSB

So He poured out on them His furious anger and the fierceness of battle. It enveloped them in flames, but they did not understand; it consumed them, but they did not take it to heart.

Also

Amos 4:6

Amos 4:6 · BSB

“I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

16from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty.

18Consider carefully from this day forward—from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, the day the foundation of the LORD’s temple was laid—consider carefully:

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