Haggai 1:4

New Century Version

"Is it right for you to be living in fancy houses while the Temple is still in ruins?"

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?”

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

King James Version (1611)
Is it time for you, O yee, to dwell in your sieled houses, and this house lie waste?

King James Version
Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

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

New American Standard Bible
"Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house remains desolate?"

Amplified Bible
"Is it time for you yourselves to live in your [expensive] paneled houses while this house [of the LORD] lies in ruins?"

Geneva Bible (1587)
Is it time for your selues to dwell in your sieled houses, and this House lie waste?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies desolate?"

Legacy Standard Bible
"Is it time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses while this house lies waste?"

Berean Standard Bible
"Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?"

Complete Jewish Bible
"So is now the time for you to be living in your own paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?

Darby Translation
Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?

Easy-to-Read Version
"You people think the right time has come for you to live in nice houses. You live in houses with beautiful wooden paneling on the walls, but the Lord's house is still in ruins.

George Lamsa Translation
Is it a time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?

Good News Translation
"My people, why should you be living in well-built houses while my Temple lies in ruins?

Lexham English Bible
"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your houses that have been paneled while this house is desolate?"

Literal Translation
Is it time for you yourselves to live in your covered houses, and this house to lie waste?

American Standard Version
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?

Bible in Basic English
Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Is it time for you your selues to dwel in seeled houses, and this house lie wast?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Is it time for you to dwell in your ceiled houses, whereas our house is desolate?

English Revised Version
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your cieled houses, while this house lieth waste?

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
profete, and seide, Whether it is tyme to you, that ye dwelle in housis couplid with tymbir, and this hous be forsakun?

Update Bible Version
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lies waste?

Webster's Bible Translation
[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your ceiled houses, and this house [lie] waste?

New English Translation
"Is it right for you to live in richly paneled houses while my temple is in ruins?

New King James Version
"Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple Haggai 1:8">[fn] to lie in ruins?"

New Living Translation
"Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins?

New Life Bible
"Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your houses with walls covered with wood, while this house lies waste?"

New Revised Standard
Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Is it a time that, ye yourselves, should be dwelling in your own paneled houses? and, this house, be in ruins?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie desolate?

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

Young's Literal Translation
Is it time for you -- you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye yor selues can fynde tyme to dwell in syled houses, and shal this house lye waist?

Contextual Overview

¹ The prophet Haggai spoke the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest. This message came in the second year that Darius was king, on the first day of the sixth month: ² "This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: ‘The people say the right time has not come to rebuild the Temple of the Lord .'" ³ Then Haggai the prophet spoke the word of the Lord : ⁴ "Is it right for you to be living in fancy houses while the Temple is still in ruins?" ⁵ This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: "Think about what you have done. ⁶ You have planted much, but you harvest little. You eat, but you do not become full. You drink, but you are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but you are not warm enough. You earn money, but then you lose it all as if you had put it into a purse full of holes." ⁷ This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: "Think about what you have done. ⁸ Go up to the mountains, bring back wood, and build the Temple. Then I will be pleased with it and be honored," says the Lord . ⁹ "You look for much, but you find little. When you bring it home, I destroy it. Why?" asks the Lord All-Powerful. "Because you all work hard for your own houses while my house is still in ruins! ¹⁰ Because of what you have done, the sky holds back its rain and the ground holds back its crops.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to: 2 Samuel 7:2, Psalms 132:3-5, Matthew 6:33, Philippians 2:21

and: Psalms 74:7, Psalms 102:14, Jeremiah 26:6, Jeremiah 26:18, Jeremiah 52:13, Lamentations 2:7, Lamentations 4:1, Ezekiel 24:21, Daniel 9:17, Daniel 9:18, Daniel 9:26, Daniel 9:27, Micah 3:12, Matthew 24:1, Matthew 24:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 23:2 - to decline Leviticus 19:25 - General Deuteronomy 8:12 - and hast built 2 Kings 7:9 - they said one 1 Chronicles 17:1 - I dwell Nehemiah 7:4 - the houses Proverbs 3:9 - General Jeremiah 22:14 - ceiled with cedar Ezekiel 41:16 - ceiled with wood Haggai 1:9 - Because Haggai 2:14 - So is this people

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
God named the dry land "earth" and the water that was gathered together "seas." God saw that this was good.

Genesis 1:12
The earth produced plants with grain for seeds and trees that made fruits with seeds in them. Each seed grew its own kind of plant. God saw that all this was good.

Genesis 1:18
to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. God saw that all these things were good.

Genesis 1:25
So God made the wild animals, the tame animals, and all the small crawling animals to produce more of their own kind. God saw that this was good.

Genesis 1:31
God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.

Ecclesiastes 2:13
I saw that being wise is certainly better than being foolish, just as light is better than darkness.

Ecclesiastes 11:7
Sunshine is sweet; it is good to see the light of day.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[Is it] time for you, O ye, to dwell in your panelled houses,.... They could not only find time, leisure, and convenience to build houses to dwell in; but to wainscot them, and line them with boards of cedar, as the Targum; as bad as the times were complained of; and could sit in them, indulging themselves in luxury, ease, and sloth; and why then was it not a fit and convenient time as well to build the house of the Lord in?

and this house [lie] waste? or, "and shall this house lie waste?" or, "when this house lies waste?" o not indeed in its rubbish and ruins, as it was demolished by the Chaldeans, and left; but with a bare foundation, laid some years ago; and ever since neglected; the superstructure not carried on, and much less built up to be fit for service; and therefore might be said with propriety to lie waste and desolate, being unfinished, unfit for use, and no regard had unto it. David was of another mind, 2 Samuel 7:2 and truly religious persons will be more concerned for the house of God than for their own houses.

o והבית הזה חרב "et domus ista deserta manebit?" Drusius; "quum domus haec vasta est?" Junius Tremellius, Piscator "dum domus haec desolata est?" Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Is it time for you - You, being what you are, the creatures of God, “to dwell in your ceiled houses,” more emphatically, in your houses, and those “ceiled,” probably with costly woods, such as cedar . But where then was the excuse of want of means? They imitated, in their alleged poverty, what is spoken of as magnificent in their old kings, Solomon and Shallum, but not having, as Solomon first did (1 Kings 6:9, ויספן), “covered the house of God with beams and rows of cedar” . “Will ye dwell in houses artificially adorned, not so much for use as for delight, and shall My dwelling-place, wherein was the Holy of holies, and the cherubim, and the table of showbread, be bestreamed with rains, desolated in solitude, scorched by the sun?”

“With these words carnal Christians are reproved, who have no glow of zeal for God, but are full of self-love, and so make no effort to repair, build, or strengthen the material temples of Christ, and houses assigned to His worship, when aged, ruinous, decaying or destroyed, but build for themselves curious, voluptuous, superfluous dwellings. In these the love of Christ gloweth not; these Isaiah threateneth, Isaiah 5:8, Isaiah 5:12. “Woe to you who join house to house and field to field, and regard not the work of the Lord!”

To David and Solomon the building of God’s temple was their heart’s desire; to early Christian Emperors, to the ages of faith, the building of Churches; now mostly, owners of lands build houses for this world’s profit, and leave it to the few to build in view of eternity, and for the glory of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 4. Is it time for you — If the time be not come to rebuild the temple, it cannot be come for you to build yourselves comfortable houses: but ye are rebuilding your houses; why then do ye not rebuild the house of the Lord? The foundation of the temple had been laid fourteen years before, and some considerable progress made in the building; and it had been lying waste in that unfinished state to the present time.