KJV King James Version
[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste?
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Haggai 1:4
[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
WEB World English Bible
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
ASV American Standard Version
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Is it time for you—you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?
Surrounding context — Haggai 1
1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
2 Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’S house should be built.
3 Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4 [Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house [lie] waste?
5 Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
6 Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.
7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
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2 Samuel 7:2That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.Psalm 132:3-5Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;Philippians 2:21For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.Haggai 1:9Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.Matthew 6:33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.Jeremiah 52:13And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great [men], burned he with fire:Lamentations 4:1How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.Daniel 9:17-18Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord’s sake.Micah 3:12Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed [as] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.Psalm 102:14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.Lamentations 2:7The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.Jeremiah 33:10Thus saith the LORD; Again there shall be heard in this place, which ye say [shall be] desolate without man and without beast, [even] in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man, and without inhabitant, and without beast,Jeremiah 26:6Then will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.Jeremiah 26:18Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed [like] a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.Jeremiah 33:12Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing [their] flocks to lie down.Psalm 74:7They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled [by casting down] the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.Daniel 9:26-27And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof [shall be] with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.Matthew 24:1-2And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple: and his disciples came to [him] for to shew him the buildings of the temple.
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