Parallel Verses

World English Bible

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

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?

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 Yahweh came by Haggai, the prophet, saying, 4 "Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste? 5 Now therefore this is what Yahweh of Armies says: Consider your ways.


Cross References

2 Samuel 7:2

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

Psalm 132:3-5

"Surely I will not come into the structure of my house, nor go up 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 will I make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 26:18

Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Jeremiah 33:10

Thus says Yahweh: Yet again there shall be heard in this place, about which you say, It is 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 Yahweh of Armies: Yet again shall there be in this place, which is waste, without man and without animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

Jeremiah 52:13

and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary; He has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces: They have made a noise in the house of Yahweh, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

Lamentations 4:1

How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

Ezekiel 24:21

Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

Daniel 9:17-18

Now therefore, our God, listen to the prayer of your servant, and to his petitions, and cause your face to shine on your sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake.

Daniel 9:26-27

After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One shall be cut off, and shall have nothing: and the people of the prince who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and its end shall be with a flood, and even to the end shall be war; desolations are determined.

Micah 3:12

Therefore Zion for your sake will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps of rubble, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.

Haggai 1:9

"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.

Matthew 24:1-2

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple.

Philippians 2:21

For they all seek their own, not the things of Jesus Christ.

Psalm 102:14

For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.

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