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A Call to Rebuild the Temple

Haggai 1:4

In 11 translations

BSB
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”
KJV
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
WEB
“Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
ASV
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?
LSV
“Is it time for you to dwell in your covered houses, || And this house to lie waste?”
YLT
Is it time for you — you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?
DBY
Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?
DRC
Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie desolate?
GNV
Is it time for your selues to dwell in your sieled houses, and this House lie waste?
JPS
'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?
LXXE
Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, whereas our house is desolate?

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Original-language editions

WLC
הַעֵ֤ת לָכֶם֙ אַתֶּ֔ם לָשֶׁ֖בֶת בְּבָתֵּיכֶ֣ם סְפוּנִ֑ים וְהַבַּ֥יִת הַזֶּ֖ה חָרֵֽב׃
LXX-Br
Εἰ καιρὸς μὲν ὑμῖν ἐστι τοῦ οἰκεῖν ἐν οἴκοις ὑμῶν κοιλοστάθμοις, ὁ δὲ οἶκος ἡμῶν ἐξηρήμωται;

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In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 2 Samuel 7:2he said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am, living in a house of cedar, while the ark of God remains in a tent.”
  • Psalms 132:3–5“I will not enter my house or get into my bed, I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids, until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
  • Philippians 2:21For all the others look after their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
  • Haggai 1:9You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.
  • Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
  • Jeremiah 52:13He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.
  • Lamentations 4:1How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.
  • Micah 3:12Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of rubble, and the temple mount a wooded ridge.
  • Daniel 9:17–18So now, our God, hear the prayers and petitions of Your servant. For Your sake, O Lord, cause Your face to shine upon Your desolate sanctuary. Incline Your ear, O my God, and hear; open Your eyes and see the desolation…
  • Jeremiah 33:10This is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again
  • Psalms 74:7They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
  • Lamentations 2:7The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed…
  • Jeremiah 26:18“Micah the Moreshite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah and told all the people of Judah that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will become a heap of…
  • Jeremiah 26:6then I will make this house like Shiloh, and I will make this city an object of cursing among all the nations of the earth.’”
  • Psalms 102:14For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.
  • Jeremiah 33:12This is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.

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