Haggai 1:4
Is it time for you — you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?
Young's Literal Translation
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 there is a word of Jehovah by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:
5And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.
Cross References
Leviticus 19:25And in the fifth year ye do eat its fruit — to add to you its increase; I [am] Jehovah your God.
2 Kings 5:26And he saith unto him, 'My heart went not when the man turned from off his chariot to meet thee; is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olives, and vines, and flock, and herd, and men-servants, and maid-servants?
Psalms 102:14For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.
Ecclesiastes 3:3A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.
Jeremiah 26:18'Micah the Morashtite hath been prophesying in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and he saith unto all the people of Judah, saying: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Zion is a plowed field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mountain of the house is for high places of a forest.
Jeremiah 33:12Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Again there is in this place — that is waste, Without man and beast, And in all its cities — a habitation of shepherds, Causing the flock 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 →