Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
I called--what the "heaven" and "earth," the second causes, were said to do (Haggai 1:10), being the visible instruments, Jehovah, in this verse, the invisible first cause, declares to be His doing. He "calls for" famine, etc., as instruments of His wrath (2 Kings 8:1; Psalms 105:16). The contrast is striking between the prompt obedience of these material agencies, and the slothful disobedience of living men, His people.
drought--Hebrew, Choreb, like in sound to Chareeb, "waste" (Haggai 1:4, Haggai 1:9), said of God's house; implying the correspondence between the sin and its punishment. Ye have let My house be waste, and I will send on all that is yours a wasting drought. This would affect not merely the "corn," etc., but also "men" and "cattle," who must perish in the absence of the "corn," etc., lost by the drought.
labour of the hands--all the fruits of lands, gardens, and vineyards, obtained by labor of the hands (Deuteronomy 28:33; Psalms 78:46).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Ezra 5:1
Nehemiah 5:1-5
Haggai 1:1
Zechariah 3:9
Zechariah 8:12
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