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 came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet. He said: 4 “Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate?” 5 Jehovah of Hosts said: Consider your ways.

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:2

The king said to the prophet Nathan: I live in a house built of cedar. Yet the Ark of God is kept in a tent!

Psalm 132:3-5

He said: I will not step inside my house,

Psalm 74:7

They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling-place of your name.

Jeremiah 26:6

If you continue to disobey I will do to this Temple what I did to Shiloh, and all the nations of the world will use the name of this city as a curse.''

Jeremiah 26:18

Years ago when Hezekiah was king of Judah, a prophet named Micah from the town of Moresheth said: 'Jehovah of Hosts says, Jerusalem will be plowed under and left in ruins. Thorns will cover the mountain where the Temple now stands.'

Jeremiah 33:10

This is what Jehovah says: 'You have said that this place is ruined and that no people or animals live in it. It is true! The cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem are deserted. No people or animals live there. But once again you will hear,

Jeremiah 33:12

Jehovah of Hosts said: 'In this land that is like a desert and where no people or animals live, there will once again be pastures where shepherds can take their sheep.'

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned down Jehovah's Temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem. Every important building was burned down.

Lamentations 2:7

Jehovah rejected his altar and disowned his holy place. He gave up into the hands of the attacker the walls of her great houses. Their voices have been loud in the house of Jehovah as in the day of a holy meeting.

Lamentations 4:1

How dark the gold has become! How changed is the best gold! The stones of the holy place are dropping out at the top of every street.

Ezekiel 24:21

Speak to the house of Israel. Tell them Jehovah says: 'I am about to profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes and your delight. Your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.

Daniel 9:17-18

Now therefore, O our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his supplications, and cause your face to shine upon your sanctuary that is desolate, for Jehovah's sake.

Daniel 9:26-27

And after the sixty-two weeks the anointed one will be cut off (destroyed) (killed) and shall have nothing. The people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. The end of it shall be by the flood of war and desolations.

Micah 3:12

It is your fault that Zion will be plowed like a field. Jerusalem will become heaps of ruin, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Haggai 1:9

You looked for much harvest and you received little. When you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? Said Jehovah of Hosts. Because my house lies in waste, while each of you run to his house.

Matthew 6:33

Seek (desire) (require) (serve) first the kingdom of God and his righteousness [continuously] and all these things will be added to you.

Matthew 24:1-2

After Jesus left the temple, his disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.

Philippians 2:21

They all seek their own interest and not the things of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 102:14

Your servants find pleasure in her stones and feel pity for her dust.

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