Haggai 2:17 - Exposition

I smote you with blasting and with mildew. It was God who inflicted these calamities upon them judicially, according to the threats in Deuteronomy 28:22 (comp. Amos 4:9 , and note there). These two pests affected the corn; the vines were smitten with hail ( Psalms 78:47 ). In all the labours (work) of your hands. All that you had cultivated with toil, corn, vines, fruit of every sort. Yet ye turned not to me. The clause is elliptical, "yet not ye to me." The LXX . and Syriac translate as the Authorized Version, supplying the verb from the parallel passage in Amos 4:9 . The Vulgate (not according to precedent), Non fuit in vobis qui revertetur ad me . In spite of these visitations there was not one among them who shook off his idle inaction and worked for the Lord.