Haggai 2:18 (DRB)

Passage

I struck you with a blasting wind, and all the works of your hand with the mildew and with hail, yet there was none among you that returned to me, saith the Lord.

Nearby Context

Haggai 2:16 And now consider in your hearts, from this day and upward, before there was a stone laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord.

Haggai 2:17 When you went to a heap of twenty bushels, and they became ten: and you went into the press, to press out fifty vessels, and they became twenty.

Haggai 2:18 I struck you with a blasting wind, and all the works of your hand with the mildew and with hail, yet there was none among you that returned to me, saith the Lord.

Haggai 2:19 Set your hearts from this day, and henceforward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month: from the day that the foundations of the temple of the Lord were laid, and lay it up in your hearts.

Haggai 2:20 Is the seed as yet sprung up? or hath the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree as yet flourished? from this day I will bless you.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "struck", "blasting", "wind", "works", "hand", "mildew", "hail", and "none". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "struck" and "blasting", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 17's "When you went to a heap of..." into verse 19's "Set your hearts from this day and...", so "struck" and "blasting" 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 "struck" and "blasting" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.