Haggai 1:10

“Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, etc.] Or, “therefore over”, or “upon you”f24; where should be a stop; that is, because, of your neglect of the house of God; therefore upon you, and upon you only, and not upon other nations, the heaven is restrained from letting down the dew: or, “therefore I am against you”f25; for the above reason, and which the following things show; and sad it is to have God to be an enemy, and against a people! or, “for your sake”; so the Syriac version, to which sense is the Targum, “therefore for your sins;” and so Jarchi, “the heaven is stayed from dew”; none descends from it; the Lord, who has the ordering of it, will not suffer it: to have the dew…”

“heaven . . . is stayed from dew--literally "stays itself." Thus heaven or the sky is personified; implying that inanimate nature obeys Jehovah's will; and, shocked at His people's disobedience, withholds its goods from them (compare Jer 2:12-13).”

“Therefore, for you, - on your account; (As in Ps. 44:43.) for your sins, (Jon.) He points out the moral cause of the drought, whereas men think of this or that cause of the variations of the seasons, and we, e. g., take into our mouths Scriptural words, as “murrain of cattle,” and the like, and think of nothing less than why it was sent, or who sent it. Haggai directs the mind to the higher Cause, that as they withheld their service from God, so, on their account and by His will, His creatures withheld their service from them. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Is stayed - God hath forbidden them, to drop down dew. Haggai 1:11”

“Lev 26:19; Deu 28:23, Deu 28:24; Kg1 8:35, Kg1 17:1; Jer 14:1-6; Hos 2:9; Joe 1:18-20 Haggai 1:11”