Matthew Poole and continuators on Haggai 2:17

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

My hand was visible in your losses, scarcity, and disappointments.

The persons put for their Labours, their Corn, Vines, and Olives.

Burning, and scorching Winds that blasted all.

Which with too much clammy moisture, that like glew cleaves to fruits, and turns to a corrupting of them,

which in these colder Countreys many times by its violence destroys Corn, Fruits, and Trees, but in those Countreys doth it of[illegible: 1 letter]er. Now here was in these somewhat more of the hand of God, and so the punishment was as more grievous, so more visible.

In your Plowing and Sowing for Harvest, in Planting of Olives and Vines for a Vintage.

You did not see my hand, though you felt it, you did not repent of your sinful neglect of me, my Worship, and Temple, nor thought of building my House.

This attested with Gods own hand [illegible: 1 word] witness hereto.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 letter]eut. 28.22. [illegible: 1 letter]ing. 8.37.; [illegible: 1 word] 4.9. [illegible: 2 letters]ap. 1.11.