Haggai 1:4
Is it, then, a time for yourselves To dwell in ceiled houses, While this house lieth waste?
Noyes Bible
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 Jehovah hath come by Haggai the prophet, saying:—
5Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider how it goeth with you!
Cross References
Psalms 102:14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones; Yea, they have a regard for her dust.
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to breaking down, and a time to build up.
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 Jehovah of hosts: Zion shall be ploughed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of stones, and the mountain of the house [[of Jehovah]] as the heights of a forest.
Jeremiah 33:12Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet again shall there be in this place, Which is desolate, without man and without beast, And in all the cities thereof, A habitation of shepherds, who shall cause their flocks to 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 →