Haggai 1:4 · KJV
“{Is it} time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house {lie} waste?”
— Haggai 1:4
Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}
Haggai 1 — Context
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.
3Then came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
4{Is it} time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house {lie} waste?
5Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways. {Consider...: Heb. Set your heart on your ways}
6Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages {to put it} into a bag with holes. {with holes: Heb. pierced through}
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:2
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 132:3-5
Surely I will not come into the tabernacle of my house, nor go up into my bed;
Philippians 2:21
For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ's.
Haggai 1:9
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. {blow...: or, blow it away}
Matthew 6:33
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
Jeremiah 52:13
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:
Lamentations 4:1
How is the gold become dim! {how} is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.
Micah 3:12
Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed {as} a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.