Haggai 1:4

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

Is it time {H6256} for you, O ye, to dwell {H3427} in your cieled {H5603} houses {H1004}, and this house {H1004} lie waste {H2720}?

"So is now the time for you to be living in your own paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?

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

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

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Cross-References

  • 2 Samuel 7:2 (13 votes)

    That the king said unto Nathan the prophet, See now, I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains.

  • Psalms 132:3 (10 votes)

    Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;

  • Psalms 132:5 (10 votes)

    Until I find out a place for the LORD, an habitation for the mighty [God] of Jacob.

  • Philippians 2:21 (6 votes)

    For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.

  • Haggai 1:9 (6 votes)

    Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

  • Matthew 6:33 (5 votes)

    But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

  • Jeremiah 52:13 (4 votes)

    And burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great [men], burned he with fire: