Haggai 1:4

Modern English Version

Is it time for you yourselves to live in paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:2

the king said to Nathan the prophet, “I am dwelling in a cedar house, but the ark of God is sitting in a tent.”

2 Kings 5:26

He said to him, “Did my heart not go with you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to take money, and to take garments, olives and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants?

Psalm 102:14

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

Psalm 74:7

They set Your sanctuary on fire; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your name, bringing it to the ground.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

Jeremiah 22:14

who says, “I will build myself a roomy house and large chambers,” and cuts out its windows, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah of Moresheth prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.’

Jeremiah 26:6

then I will make this house like Shiloh and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 33:10

Thus says the Lord: Again there shall be heard in this place of which you say, “It is desolate, without man and without beast,” even in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, that are desolate, without man and without inhabitant, and without beast,

Jeremiah 33:12

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Again in this place which is desolate, without man and without beast, and in all the cities, will be a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

Jeremiah 52:13

and burned the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Even all the large houses, he burned with fire.

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has scorned His altar, He has disowned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord as on the day of a solemn feast.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has become dim! How the most fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary lie scattered at the head of every street.

Ezekiel 24:21

Speak to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I will profane My sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the desire of your eyes and the delight of your soul. And your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind shall fall by the sword.

Leviticus 19:25

And in the fifth year you shall eat of the fruit that it may yield an increase to you: I am the Lord your God.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion will be plowed like a field, Jerusalem will be mounds of ruins, and the mountain of the house will become wooded heights.

Haggai 1:3

Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying:

Haggai 1:5

Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of Hosts: Consider your ways.

Haggai 1:9

You looked for much, and it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of Hosts. Because of My house that lies in ruins while each of you runs to his own house.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you.

Philippians 2:21

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