Haggai 1:10-11
10This is why the sky ▼▼tn The Hebrew text has “over you” (so KJV), but this is redundant in contemporary English and has been left untranslated.
has held back its dew and the earth its produce. ▼▼sn This linkage of human sin to natural disaster is reminiscent of the curse brought upon the earth by Adam’s disobedience (Gen 3:17-19; see Rom 8:20-22).
11Moreover, I have called for a drought that will affect the fields, the hill country, the grain, new wine, fresh olive oil, and everything that grows from the ground; it also will harm people, animals, and everything they produce.” ▼▼tn Heb “all the labor of hands” (similar KJV, NASB, NIV); cf. NAB “all that is produced by hand.”
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