Haggai 1:4

New American Bible - revised edition

Is it time for you to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins?

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:2

the king said to Nathan the prophet, “Here I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells in a tent!”

2 Kings 5:26

But Elisha said to him: “Was I not present in spirit when someone got down from his chariot to wait for you? Is this a time to take money or to take garments, olive orchards or vineyards, sheep or cattle, male or female servants?

Psalm 102:14

You will again show mercy to Zion; now is the time for pity; the appointed time has come.

Psalm 74:7

They set your sanctuary on fire, profaned your name’s abode by razing it to the ground.

Ecclesiastes 3:3

A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear down, and a time to build.

Jeremiah 22:14

Who says, “I will build myself a spacious house, with airy rooms,” Who cuts out windows for it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah of Moresheth used to prophesy in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and he said to all the people of Judah: Thus says the Lord of hosts: Zion shall be plowed as a field, Jerusalem, a heap of ruins, and the temple mount, a forest ridge.

Jeremiah 26:6

I will treat this house like Shiloh, and make this city a curse for all the nations of the earth.

Jeremiah 33:10

Thus says the Lord: In this place, about which you say: “It is a waste without people or animals!” and in the cities of Judah, in the streets of Jerusalem now deserted, without people, without inhabitant, without animal, there shall yet be heard

Jeremiah 33:12

Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place, now a waste, without people or animals, and in all its cities there shall again be sheepfolds for the shepherds to rest their flocks.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned the house of the Lord, the palace of the king, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every large building he destroyed with fire.

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has rejected his altar, spurned his sanctuary; He has handed over to the enemy the walls of its strongholds. They shout in the house of the Lord as on a feast day.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has lost its luster, the noble metal changed; Jewels lie scattered at the corner of every street.

Ezekiel 24:21

Say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will now desecrate my sanctuary, the pride of your strength, the delight of your eyes, the concern of your soul. The sons and daughters you left behind shall fall by the sword.

Leviticus 19:25

Not until the fifth year may you eat its fruit, to increase the yield for you. I, the Lord, am your God.

Micah 3:12

Therefore, because of you, Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem reduced to rubble, And the mount of the temple to a forest ridge.

Haggai 1:3

Then the word of the Lord came through Haggai the prophet:

Haggai 1:5

Now thus says the Lord of hosts: Reflect on your experience!

Haggai 1:9

You expected much, but it came to little; and what you brought home, I blew away. Why is this?—oracle of the Lord of hosts— Because my house is the one which lies in ruins, while each of you runs to your own house.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom [of God] and his righteousness, and all these things will be given you besides.

Philippians 2:21

For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.