Parallel Verses

Amplified

“Is it time for you yourselves to live in your [expensive] paneled houses while this house [of the Lord] lies in ruins?”

New American Standard Bible

“Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate?”

King James Version

Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

Holman Bible

“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

International Standard Version

"Is it the right time for all of you to live in your own paneled houses while this house remains in ruins?"

A Conservative Version

Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lays waste?

American Standard Version

Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?

Bible in Basic English

Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

Darby Translation

Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?

Julia Smith Translation

Is the time for you, O ye, to dwell in your covered houses, and this house a waste?

King James 2000

Is it time for you, yourselves, to dwell in your paneled houses, and this house lie in ruins?

Lexham Expanded Bible

"[Is it] a time for you yourselves to dwell in your houses that have been paneled [while] this house [is] desolate?"

Modern King James verseion

Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your finished houses, and shall this House lie waste?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

"Ye yourselves can find time to dwell in sealed houses: and shall this house lie waste?

NET Bible

"Is it right for you to live in richly paneled houses while my temple is in ruins?

New Heart English Bible

"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

The Emphasized Bible

Is it a time that, ye yourselves, should be dwelling in your own paneled houses? and, this house, be in ruins?

Webster

Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?

World English Bible

"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?

Youngs Literal Translation

Is it time for you -- you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Is it time
עת 
`eth 
Usage: 296

for you, O ye, to dwell
ישׁב 
Yashab 
Usage: 1081

ספן 
Caphan 
Usage: 6

בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

and this house
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

Images Haggai 1:4

Prayers for Haggai 1:4

Context Readings

The Temple Lies In Ruins

3 Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4 “Is it time for you yourselves to live in your [expensive] paneled houses while this house [of the Lord] lies in ruins?” 5 Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, “Consider your ways and thoughtfully reflect on your conduct!


Cross References

2 Samuel 7:2

the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within tent curtains.”

Psalm 132:3-5


“I absolutely will not enter my house,
Nor get into my bed—

Psalm 74:7


They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground;
They have profaned the dwelling place of Your name.

Jeremiah 26:6

then I will make this house [the temple] like Shiloh, and I will make this city [subject to] the curse of all nations of the earth [because it will be so vile in their sight].”’”

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts,

“Zion will be plowed like a field,
And Jerusalem will become [heaps of] ruins,
And the mountain of the house [of the Lord—Mount Moriah, on which stands the temple, shall become covered not with buildings, but] like a densely wooded height.”’

Jeremiah 33:10

“Thus says the Lord, ‘Yet again there will be heard in this place of which you say, “It is a [desolate] waste, without man and without animal”—even in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant and without animal—

Jeremiah 33:12

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘There will again be in this desolate place—[a place] without man or animal—and in all its cities, pastures for shepherds who rest their flocks.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned down the house of the Lord and the king’s palace and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house or important structure he set on fire.

Lamentations 2:7


The Lord has rejected His altar;
He has abandoned His sanctuary.
He has given into the hand of the enemy
The walls of her palaces;
They have made a noise in the house of the Lord
As on a day of an appointed feast.

Lamentations 4:1

How dark and dim the gold has become,
How the pure gold has changed!
The sacred stones [of the temple] are poured out and scattered
At the head of every street.

Ezekiel 24:21

‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God, ‘Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind [in Jerusalem] will fall by the sword.

Daniel 9:17-18

Now therefore, our God, listen to (heed) the prayer of Your servant (Daniel) and his supplications, and for Your own sake let Your face shine on Your desolate sanctuary.

Daniel 9:26-27

Then after the sixty-two weeks [of years] the Anointed One will be cut off [and denied His Messianic kingdom] and have nothing [and no one to defend Him], and the people of the [other] prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined.

Micah 3:12


Therefore, on account of you
Zion shall be plowed like a field,
Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins,
And the mountain of the house [of the Lord] shall become like a densely wooded hill.

Haggai 1:9

You look for much [harvest], but it comes to little; and even when you bring that home, I blow it away. Why?” says the Lord of hosts. “Because of My house, which lies in ruins while each of you runs to his own house [eager to enjoy it].

Matthew 6:33

But first and most importantly seek (aim at, strive after) His kingdom and His righteousness [His way of doing and being right—the attitude and character of God], and all these things will be given to you also.

Matthew 24:1-2

Jesus left the temple area and was going on His way when His disciples came up to Him to call His attention to the [magnificent and massive] buildings of the temple.

Philippians 2:21

For the others [who deserted me after my arrest] all seek [to advance] their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 102:14


For Your servants find [melancholy] pleasure in the stones [of her ruins]
And feel pity for her dust.

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