Haggai 1:4
Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
In Context
3Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying,
5For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25But in the fifth year you may take the fruit and the increase of it for your food: I am the Lord your God.
2 Kings 5:26And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?
Psalms 102:14\102:13\You will again get up and have mercy on Zion: for the time has come for her to be comforted.
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;
Jeremiah 26:18Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.
Jeremiah 33:12This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.
Matthew Henry on Haggai 1:2-12
Haggai The captivity in Babylon gave a very remarkable turn to the affairs of the Jewish church both in history and prophecy. It is made a signal epocha in our Saviour's genealogy, Matt. i. 17 . Nine of the twelve minor prophets, whose oracles we have been hitherto consulting, lived and preached before that captivity, and most of them had an eye to it in their prophecies, foretelling it as the just punishment of Jerusalem's wickedness. But the last three (in whom the Spirit of prophecy took its period, until it… Read the whole commentary →