Haggai 1:4
Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie desolate?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
3And the word of the Lord came by the hand of Aggeus the prophet, saying:
5And now thus saith the Lord of hosts: Set your hearts to consider your ways.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year you shall eat the fruits thereof, gathering the increase thereof. I am the Lord your God.
2 Kings 5:26But he said: Was not my heart present, when the man turned back from his chariot to meet thee? So now thou hast received money, and received garments, to buy oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants.
Psalms 102:14Thou shalt arise and have mercy on Sion: for it is time to have mercy on it, for the time is come.
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.
Jeremiah 26:18Micheas of Morasthi was a prophet in the days of Ezechias king of Juda, and he spoke to all the people of Juda, saying: Thus saith the Lord of hosts: Sion shall be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall be a heap of stones: and the mountain of the house the high places of woods.
Jeremiah 33:12Thus saith the Lord of hosts: There shall be again in this place that is desolate without man, and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
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 →