Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As YHWH, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
Haggai 1:10 - Y'all Version Bible Therefore because of y’all the heavens have withheld their dew, and the earth has withheld its fruit. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from her fruit. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore the heavens above you [for your sake] withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its produce. American Standard Version (1901) Therefore for your sake the heavens withhold the dew, and the earth withholdeth its fruit. Common English Bible Therefore, the skies above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce because of you. Catholic Public Domain Version Because of this, the heavens over you have been prohibited from giving dew, and the earth has been prohibited from giving her sprouts. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Therefore the heavens over you were stayed from giving dew, and the earth was hindered from yielding her fruits: |
Elijah the Tishbite, who was one of the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As YHWH, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there will not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.”
“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,
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.
I will break down y’all’s powerful pride, and I will make y’all’s sky like iron and y’all’s soil like bronze.
Y’all have planted much, but bring in little. Y’all eat, but don’t have enough. Y’all drink, but aren’t not enough to be tipsy. Y’all clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. The one who earns wages puts them into a bag with holes.’