Haggai 2:17

Translations

King James Version (KJV)

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you turned not to me, said the LORD.

American King James Version (AKJV)

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you turned not to me, said the LORD.

American Standard Version (ASV)

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah.

Basic English Translation (BBE)

And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.

Webster's Revision

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labors of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

World English Bible

I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.

English Revised Version (ERV)

I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.

Definitions for Haggai 2:17

Hail - A greeting of joy and peace.

Barnes's Haggai 2:17 Bible Commentary

I smote you with blasting and mildew, - two diseases of grain, which Moses had foretold Deuteronomy 28:27. as chastisements on disobedience and God's infliction, of which Amos had spoken in these self-same words. Amos 4:9. Haggai adds the hail, as destructive of the vines. Psalm 78:47. Yet (And) ye turned you not to Me literally "there were none" - your, (accusative i. e., who turned you unto Me. The words are elliptical, but express the entire absence of conversion, of any who turned to God.

Wesley's Haggai 2:17 Bible Commentary

2:17 Blessing - Burning, and scorching winds. All the labours - In your plowing and sowing, in planting of olives and vines.