Bible in Basic English
"For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit."
— Haggai 1:10, Bible in Basic English
“Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.”
“Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit. ”
“Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.”
“This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.”
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.
Go up to the hills and get wood and put up the house; and I will take pleasure in it and be honoured, says the Lord.
You were looking for much, and it came to little; and when you got it into your house, I took it away with a breath. Why? says the Lord of armies. Because of my house which is a waste, while every man takes care of the house which is his.
For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.
And by my order no rain came on the land or on the mountains or the grain or the wine or the oil or the produce of the earth or on men or cattle or on any work of man's hands.
Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and all the rest of the people, gave ear to the voice of the Lord their God and to the words of Haggai the prophet, because the Lord their God had sent him, and the people were in fear before the Lord.
Then Haggai, whom the Lord had sent to give his words to the people, said, I am with you, says the Lord.