Haggai 1:4
Is it time for you to dwell in paneled houses, while this house is deserted?
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
3But the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:
5And now, thus says the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts upon your ways.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year you shall eat the produce, gathering the fruits which are brought forth. I am the Lord your God.
2 Kings 5:26But he said: “Was my heart not present, when the man turned back from his chariot to meet you? And now you have received money, and you have received garments, so that you might buy olive groves, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and men and women servants.
Psalms 102:14For he knows our form. He has called to mind that we are dust.
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to tear down, and a time to build up.
Jeremiah 26:18“Micah from Moresheth was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, the king of Judah, and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts: Zion will be ploughed like a field. And Jerusalem will be a pile of stones. And the mountain of the house will be like the forests of high places.’
Jeremiah 33:12Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Still shall there be in this place, (which is desolate without man and without beast,) and in all of its cities: a habitation for the shepherds giving rest to their flocks.
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 →