the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See now, I dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.”
Haggai 1:4 - Y'all Version Bible “Is it a time for y’all to dwell in y’all’s paneled houses, while this house lies 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 dwell in a house of cedar, but the ark of God dwells within curtains.”
He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?
For your servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity on her dust.
They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
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 spacious rooms,’ and cuts out windows for himself, with a cedar ceiling, and painted with red.
“Micah the Morashtite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah; and he spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, ‘YHWH Almighty says: “‘Zion will be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem will become heaps, and the mountain of the house as 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.’”
YHWH says: “Y’all say about this place, ‘It is waste, without humans or animals.' Yet in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without humans, inhabitants and animals, there will be heard in once more
YHWH Almighty says: “Yet again there will be in this place, which is waste, without human and animal, and in all its cities, a habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.
He burned the house of YHWH, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem. Every great house, he burned with fire.
The Lord has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of YHWH, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
‘Speak to the house of Israel, “Lord YHWH says: ‘Look! I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of y’all’s power, the desire of y’all’s eyes, and the delight y’all’s soul. The sons and daughters y’all left behind will fall by the sword.
In the fifth year y’all may eat its fruit, so that its yield may increase for y’all. I am YHWH y’all’s God.
Therefore because of y’all, Zion will be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem will become a heap of ruins, and the mountain of the temple like the high places of a forest.
Now therefore this is what YHWH Almighty says: ‘Y’all must think carefully about y’all’s ways.
“Y’all expected much, but it came to little, and when y’all brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says YHWH Almighty, “Because my house lies in waste while each of y’all is busy with their own house.
But y’all seek first the Empire of God and ʜɪꜱ righteousness, and all these things will also be given to y’all.