Haggai 1:4

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

2 Samuel 7:2

the king said to the prophet Nathan, “See now, I am living in a house of cedar, but the ark of God stays in a tent.”

2 Kings 5:26

But he said to him, “Did I not go with you in spirit when someone left his chariot to meet you? Is this a time to accept silver and to accept clothing, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, and male and female slaves?

Psalm 102:14

For your servants hold its stones dear and have pity on its dust.

Psalm 74:7

They set your sanctuary on fire; they desecrated 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 spacious house with large upper rooms,” and who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.

Jeremiah 26:18

“Micah of Moresheth, who prophesied during the days of King Hezekiah of Judah, said to all the people of Judah: ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins and the mountain of the house a wooded height.’

Jeremiah 26:6

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

Jeremiah 33:10

Thus says the Lord: In this place of which you say, “It is a waste without humans or animals,” in the towns of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without inhabitants, human or animal, there shall once more be heard

Jeremiah 33:12

Thus says the Lord of hosts: In this place that is waste, without humans or animals, and in all its towns there shall again be pasture for shepherds resting their flocks.

Jeremiah 52:13

He burned the house of the Lord, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.

Lamentations 2:7

The Lord has scorned his altar, disowned his sanctuary; he has delivered into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; a clamor was raised in the house of the Lord as on a day of festival.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has grown dim; how the pure gold is changed! The sacred stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

Ezekiel 24:21

Say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the delight of your eyes, and your heart’s desire, and your sons and your daughters whom you left behind shall fall by the sword.

Leviticus 19:25

But in the fifth year you may eat of their fruit, that their yield may be increased for you: I am the Lord your God.

Micah 3:12

Therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field; Jerusalem shall become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple a wooded height.

Haggai 1:3

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

Haggai 1:5

Now therefore thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider how you have fared.

Haggai 1:9

You have looked for much, but it came to little, and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses.

Matthew 6:33

But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

Philippians 2:21

All of them are seeking their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.