Haggai 2:19 (DBY)

Passage

Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth: from this day will I bless [you].

Nearby Context

Haggai 2:17 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.

Haggai 2:18 Consider, I pray you, from this day and onward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], from the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider [it].

Haggai 2:19 Is the seed yet in the barn? yea, the vine, and the fig-tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive-tree have not brought forth: from this day will I bless [you].

Haggai 2:20 And the word of Jehovah came the second time unto Haggai on the four and twentieth [day] of the month, saying,

Haggai 2:21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "seed", "barn", "vine", "fig-tree", "pomegranate", "olive-tree", "brought", and "forth". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "seed" and "barn", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 18's "Consider I pray you from this day..." into verse 20's "And the word of Jehovah came the...", so "seed" and "barn" belong inside that flow. In Haggai context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "seed" and "barn" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.