Haggai 1:4
Is it a time that, ye yourselves, should be dwelling in your own paneled houses? and, this house, be in ruins?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
3Therefore hath come the word of Yahweh by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:
5Now, therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts,—Apply your heart unto your own experience—
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year, shall ye eat the fruit thereof, that it may enrich you with its increase,—I—Yahweh, am your God.
2 Kings 5:26Then he said unto him—My heart, had not gone with thee, when someone turned again from off his chariot, to meet thee! Is it a time to accept silver, or to accept raiment, or oliveyards, or vineyards, or flocks or herds, or men-servants, or maid-servants?
Psalms 102:14Seeing that thy servants, take pleasure, in her stones, And, her dust, they favour:
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal,—A time to break down, and a time to build up;
Jeremiah 26:18Micah the Morashtite, was prophesying, in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah,—and he spake unto all the people of Judah, saying, thus, saith Yahweh of hosts—Zion, as a field, shall be plowed, And, Jerusalem, into heaps of ruins, shall be turned, And, the mountain of the house, [be] like mounds in a jungle,
Jeremiah 33:12Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts, Again, shall there be in this place—Which is deserted without man or even beast—And all the cities thereof,—The home of shepherds, causing 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 →