Haggai 1:4
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,
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
- KJV
- Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
- WEB
- “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
- ASV
- Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?
- DARBY
- Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?
- BLB
- “[Is it] time for you⁺ yourselves to dwell in your⁺ paneled houses, and this house [is] desolate?”
- ÅB
- Er det tid for dere til å bo i deres bordkledde hus, mens dette hus ligger øde?
- OTB
- "Er det tid for dere å bo i deres bordkledde hus,
mens dette huset ligger i ruiner?" - B1930
- Er det tid for eder til å bo i eders bordklædde hus, mens dette hus ligger øde?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Samuel 7:2
That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.
Read in contextPsalms 132:3–5
Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
Read in contextPhilippians 2:21
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.
Read in contextHaggai 1:9
Ye 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.
Read in contextMatthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Read in contextLamentations 4:1
How 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 52:13
And 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:
Read in contextDaniel 9:17–18
Now 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.
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