the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.
Haggai 1:4 - Modern King James Version Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your finished houses, and shall this House lie waste? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house [of the Lord] lies in ruins? American Standard Version (1901) Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste? Common English Bible Is it time for you to dwell in your own paneled houses while this house lies in ruins? Catholic Public Domain Version Is it time for you to dwell in paneled houses, while this house is deserted? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie desolate? |
the king said to Nathan the prophet, See now, I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.
And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you when the man turned again from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive silver and to receive clothing and olive-yards and vineyards and sheep and oxen and menservants and maidservants?
They have cast fire into Your sanctuary; they have defiled the dwelling-place of Your name to the ground.
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
who says, I will build myself a wide house and large rooms, and cuts out windows for himself, and puts in a cedar ceiling, and paints it with vermilion.
Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, So says Jehovah of Hosts: Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house like the high places of a forest.
then I will make this house like Shiloh, and will make this city a curse to all the nations of the earth.
So says Jehovah: Again there shall be heard in this place, which you say is a waste 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;
So says Jehovah of Hosts: Again in this place which is a desert without man and without beast, and in all its cities, there shall be a home of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
And he burned the house of Jehovah, and the king's house. And he burned with fire all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great ones.
Jehovah has cast off His altar; He rejected His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hater's hand. They gave a noise in the house of Jehovah, as a day of meeting.
How the gold has become dim; the fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
Speak to the house of Israel. So says the Lord Jehovah: behold, I will defile My sanctuary, the glory of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities. And your sons and your daughters whom you have left shall fall by the sword.
And in the fifth year you shall eat of the fruit of it, so that it may yield to you its increase. I am Jehovah your God.
Therefore, on account of you, Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house into high places of the forest.
You looked for much, and behold, little! And when you brought it home, then I blew on it. Why, says Jehovah of Hosts? Because of My House that is waste, and you, each man runs to his own house.
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.