Parallel Verses

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?

Amplified

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

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 the hand of Haggai the prophet, 4 “Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate?” 5 Now, therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways.

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 in a tent."

Psalm 132:3-5

"I will not enter my house or get into my bed,

Psalm 74:7

They set your sanctuary on fire; they profaned the dwelling place of your name, bringing it down to the ground.

Jeremiah 26:6

then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.'"

Jeremiah 26:18

"Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and said to all the people of Judah: 'Thus says the LORD of hosts, "'Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.'

Jeremiah 33:10

"Thus says the LORD: In this place of which you say, 'It is a waste without man or beast,' in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again

Jeremiah 33:12

"Thus says the LORD of hosts: In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be habitations of shepherds resting their flocks.

Jeremiah 52:13

And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they raised a clamor in the house of the LORD as on the day of festival.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

Ezekiel 24:21

'Say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and the yearning of your soul, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

Daniel 9:17-18

Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant and to his pleas for mercy, and for your own sake, O Lord,make your face to shine upon your sanctuary, which is desolate.

Daniel 9:26-27

And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the house a wooded height.

Haggai 1:9

You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 24:1-2

Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple.

Philippians 2:21

For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 102:14

For your servants hold her stones dear and have pity on her dust.

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