Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

New American Standard Bible

Therefore, because of you the sky has withheld its dew and the earth has withheld its produce.

King James Version

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

Holman Bible

So on your account,
the skies have withheld the dew
and the land its crops.

International Standard Version

That is why the heavens keep withholding dew from you, and the earth withholds her fruit.

A Conservative Version

Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

American Standard Version

Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.

Amplified

Therefore, because of you [that is, your sin and disobedience] the heavens withhold the dew and the earth withholds its produce.

Bible in Basic English

For this cause the heaven over you is kept from giving dew, and the earth from giving her fruit.

Darby Translation

Therefore over you the heavens withhold their dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit.

Julia Smith Translation

For this the heavens over you were shut up from dew, and the earth withheld her produce.

King James 2000

Therefore the heavens over you withholds the dew, and the earth withholds her fruit.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Therefore, because of you [the] heavens have withheld [the] dew and the earth has withheld its produce.

Modern King James verseion

Therefore the heavens above you have held back the dew, and the earth is held back from her produce.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Wherefore the heaven is forbidden to give you any dew, and the earth is forbidden to give you increase.

NET Bible

This is why the sky has held back its dew and the earth its produce.

New Heart English Bible

Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit.

The Emphasized Bible

Wherefore - on your account, have the heavens, held back, dew, - and, the earth, held back her fruit;

Webster

Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit.

Youngs Literal Translation

Therefore, over you refrained have the heavens from dew, And the land hath refrained its increase.

Topics

dew

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
שׁמה שׁמים 
Shamayim 
Usage: 420

כּלא 
Kala' 
Usage: 18

טל 
Tal 
dew
Usage: 31

and the earth
ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

is stayed
כּלא 
Kala' 
Usage: 18

References

American

Dew

Fausets

Hastings

Dew

Morish

Dew

Smith

Dew

Context Readings

The Temple Lies In Ruins

9 "You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house. 10 Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. 11 I called for a drought on the land, on the mountains, on the grain, on the new wine, on the oil, on that which the ground brings forth, on men, on livestock, and on all the labor of the hands."


Cross References

Leviticus 26:19

I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;

Deuteronomy 28:23-24

Your sky that is over your head shall be brass, and the earth that is under you shall be iron.

1 Kings 8:35

"When the sky is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against you; if they pray toward this place, and confess your name, and turn from their sin, when you afflict them:

1 Kings 17:1

Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word."

Joel 1:18-20

How the animals groan! The herds of livestock are perplexed, because they have no pasture. Yes, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.

Jeremiah 14:1-6

The word of Yahweh that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

Hosea 2:9

Therefore I will take back my grain in its time, and my new wine in its season, and will pluck away my wool and my flax which should have covered her nakedness.

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