Haggai 1:10 (DRB)

Passage

Therefore the heavens over you were stayed from giving dew, and the earth was hindered from yielding her fruits:

Nearby Context

Haggai 1:8 Go up to the mountain, bring timber, and build the house: and it shall be acceptable to me, and I shall be glorified, saith the Lord.

Haggai 1:9 You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you brought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts? because my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own house.

Haggai 1:10 Therefore the heavens over you were stayed from giving dew, and the earth was hindered from yielding her fruits:

Haggai 1:11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the wine, and upon the oil, and upon all that the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon beasts, and upon all the labour of the hands.

Haggai 1:12 Then Zorobabel the son of Salathiel, and Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and all the remnant of the people hearkened to the voice of the Lord their God, and to the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God sent him to them: and the people feared before the Lord.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "therefore", "heavens", "over", "stayed", "giving", "earth", "hindered", and "yielding". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "therefore" and "heavens", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 9's "You have looked for more and behold..." into verse 11's "And I called for a drought upon...", so "therefore" and "heavens" 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 "therefore" and "heavens" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.