Haggai 2:17

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I struck you—all the work of your hands— with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to me—this is the declaration of the LORD.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הִכֵּ֨יתִי אֶתְכֶ֜ם בַּשִּׁדָּפ֤וֹן וּבַיֵּֽרָקוֹן֙ וּבַבָּרָ֔ד אֵ֖ת כָּל־מַעֲשֵׂ֣ה יְדֵיכֶ֑ם וְאֵין־אֶתְכֶ֥ם אֵלַ֖י נְאֻם־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

hikkêtî ʾetkem with-haššiddāpôn and-with-hayyērāqôn and-with-habbārād ʾēt all-maʿăśēh yədêkem and-ʾên-ʾetkem to-me nəʾum-YHWH

Grammar Details

• *hikkêtî*: verb, hiphil perfect, 1st person singular - I struck
• *ʾetkem*: direct object marker + 2nd masculine plural suffix - you
• *haššiddāpôn*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the blight
• *hayyērāqôn*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the mildew
• *habbārād*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the hail
• *ʾēt*: direct object marker
• *maʿăśēh*: construct noun, masculine singular - work of
• *yədêkem*: noun, feminine dual construct + 2nd masculine plural suffix - your hands
• *ʾên*: adverb of negation - there is not
• *nəʾum*: construct noun, masculine singular - declaration of
• *YHWH*: divine name - Yahweh/the LORD

Word Meanings

• *hikkêtî*: I struck/I smote
• *haššiddāpôn*: blight/blast
• *hayyērāqôn*: mildew/rust
• *ʾên-ʾetkem ʾēlay*: you did not return to me/you were not [turning] to me

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  I struck you with blight and mildew and hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you did not turn to Me, says the LORD.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  I smote{H5221} you with blasting{H7711} and with mildew{H3420} and with hail{H1259} in all the work{H4639} of your hands;{H3027} yet ye [turned] not to me, saith{H5002} Jehovah.{H3068}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  I smote{H5221}{(H8689)} you with blasting{H7711} and with mildew{H3420} and with hail{H1259} in all the labours{H4639} of your hands{H3027}; yet ye turned not to me, saith{H5002}{(H8803)} the LORD{H3068}.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  For I smote you with heate, blastinge & hale stones in all the labours of youre hondes: yet was there none of you, that wolde turne vnto me, saieth the LORDE.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  (2:18) I smote you with blasting, and with mildewe, and with haile, in all the labours of your hands: yet you turned not to me, saith the Lord.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  I smote you with blasting, and with mildeawe, and with hayle, in all the worke of your handes, and you turned not vnto me, sayth the Lorde.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  I have smitten you with blasting, And with mildew, and with hail -- All the work of your hands, And there is none of you with Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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.

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  I struck all the products of your labor with blight, disease, and hail, and yet you brought nothing to me,’ says the LORD.

Referenced Verses

• Deut 28:22 : 22 The LORD will strike you with wasting disease, fever, inflammation, scorching heat, drought, blight, and mildew, which will pursue you until you perish.
• 1 Kgs 8:37 : 37 When famine or plague comes to the land, or blight, mildew, locusts, or grasshoppers, or when an enemy besieges them in any of their cities, or whatever disaster or disease may come,
• Jer 5:3 : 3 Lord, are Your eyes not on truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain; You consumed them, but they refused to accept discipline. They hardened their faces more than a rock and refused to repent.
• Hag 1:9 : 9 You expected much, but it turned out to be little. What you brought home, I blew it away. Why?” declares the LORD of Hosts. “Because My house remains in ruins, while each of you is busy with your own house.
• Hag 1:11 : 11 I called for a drought on the fields and the mountains, on the grain, the new wine, the olive oil, and everything the ground produces, on people and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.
• Zech 1:2-4 : 2 The Lord was very angry with your ancestors. 3 Therefore, say to them: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Return to me,' declares the Lord of Hosts, 'and I will return to you,' says the Lord of Hosts. 4 Do not be like your ancestors, to whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: 'This is what the Lord of Hosts says: Turn now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.' But they would not listen or pay attention to me, declares the Lord.
• Zech 7:9-9 : 9 Thus says the LORD of Hosts: 'Administer true justice. Show kindness and compassion to one another. 10 Do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil in your hearts against one another.' 11 But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder. They stopped their ears so they would not hear. 12 They made their hearts as hard as flint, refusing to hear the law and the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of Hosts. 13 'Just as I called, and they did not listen, so when they call, I will not listen,' says the LORD of Hosts.
• Rev 2:21 : 21 I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.
• Rev 9:20-21 : 20 The rest of humanity, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood—idols that cannot see or hear or walk. 21 Nor did they repent of their murders, their sorceries, their sexual immorality, or their thefts.
• Jer 6:16-17 : 16 This is what the Lord says: 'Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, 'We will not walk in it.' 17 I appointed watchmen over you and said, 'Listen to the sound of the trumpet!' But they said, 'We will not listen.'
• Jer 8:4-7 : 4 You shall say to them, ‘This is what the LORD says: Do people fall and not get up? If they turn away, do they not return?’ 5 Why then has this people, Jerusalem, turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold tightly to deceit; they refuse to return. 6 I have listened and heard, but they do not speak what is right. No one repents of their wickedness, saying, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone turns to their own course, like a horse charging into battle. 7 Even the stork in the sky knows her appointed seasons, as do the turtledove, the swallow, and the crane—they observe the time of their migration. But my people do not know the requirements of the LORD.
• Hos 7:9-9 : 9 Foreigners consume his strength, yet he does not realize it. Gray hairs are sprinkled on him, but he does not notice. 10 Israel’s arrogance testifies against him, yet they do not return to the LORD their God or seek him in all this.
• Amos 4:6 : 6 I also gave you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.
• Amos 4:8-9 : 8 People staggered from city to city for water but were not satisfied, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD. 9 I struck you with blight and mildew; the locust devoured your many gardens, vineyards, fig trees, and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD. 10 I sent plagues among you like those in Egypt. I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. The stench of your camps rose into your nostrils, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD. 11 I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You were like a firebrand snatched from the burning, yet you did not return to Me,' declares the LORD.
• Gen 42:6 : 6 Now Joseph was the ruler over the land, the one who sold grain to all its people. Joseph's brothers came and bowed down to him with their faces to the ground.
• Gen 42:23 : 23 They did not realize that Joseph understood them, since there was an interpreter between them.
• Gen 42:27 : 27 At the lodging place, one of them opened his sack to feed his donkey, and he saw his money there in the mouth of his sack.
• Exod 9:18-29 : 18 Therefore, at this time tomorrow I will send the worst hailstorm that has ever fallen on Egypt since it became a nation. 19 Give an order now to bring your livestock and everything you have in the field to a place of shelter, because the hail will fall on every person and animal that has not been brought in and is still out in the field, and they will die. 20 Those officials of Pharaoh who feared the word of the Lord hurried to bring their slaves and their livestock inside. 21 But those who ignored the word of the Lord left their slaves and livestock in the field. 22 Then the Lord said to Moses, 'Stretch out your hand toward the sky so that hail will fall all over Egypt—on people and animals and on everything growing in the fields of Egypt.' 23 When Moses stretched out his staff toward the sky, the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed down to the ground. So the Lord rained hail on the land of Egypt. 24 Hail fell and lightning flashed back and forth. It was the worst storm in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. 25 Throughout Egypt hail struck everything in the fields—both people and animals; it beat down everything growing in the fields and stripped every tree. 26 The only place it did not hail was in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived. 27 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said to them, 'This time I have sinned. The Lord is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.' 28 Pray to the Lord, for we have had enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go; you don’t have to stay any longer. 29 Moses replied, 'When I have gone out of the city, I will spread out my hands to the Lord. The thunder will stop, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the Lord.'
• 2 Chr 6:28 : 28 When famine or plague comes to the land, blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers, or if an enemy besieges them in their cities, whatever disaster or disease may come,
• 2 Chr 28:22 : 22 During his time of distress, King Ahaz became even more unfaithful to the LORD.
• Job 36:13 : 13 The godless in heart harbor anger; they do not cry for help even when He binds them.
• Ps 78:46 : 46 He gave their crops to the caterpillar and the fruit of their labor to the locust.
• Isa 9:13 : 13 So the LORD will cut off from Israel both head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.
• Isa 28:2 : 2 Behold, the Lord has one who is strong and mighty, like a hailstorm, a destructive tempest, like a driving flood of mighty waters overflowing, He will cast it down to the ground by His hand.
• Isa 37:27 : 27 Their inhabitants, stripped of strength, were dismayed and put to shame. They were like grass in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the housetops, scorched before it grows up.
• Isa 42:25 : 25 So He poured out on them His burning anger and the violence of war. It enveloped them in flames, yet they did not understand; it consumed them, yet they did not take it to heart.
• Isa 62:8 : 8 The LORD has sworn by His right hand and by His mighty arm: 'I will no longer give your grain as food for your enemies, nor will foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.'
• Jer 3:24 : 24 From our youth, shame has consumed all that our ancestors worked for—their flocks and herds, their sons and daughters.