Haggai Chapter 1 verse 4 Holy Bible
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?
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Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?
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Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?
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Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
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"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?
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Is it time for you -- you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - For you, O ye; for you, yourselves; such as ye are (see Zechariah 7:5). He appeals to their consciences. You can make yourselves comfortable; you have time and means and industry to expend on your own private interests, and can you look with indifference on the house of God lying waste? Your cieled houses; your houses, and those cieled - wainscoted and roofed with costly woods (1 Kings 7:3, 7; Jeremiah 22:14), perhaps with the very cedar provided for the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 3:7). Septuagint, ἐν οἴκοις ὑμῶν κοιλοστάθμοις, "your vaulted houses," or, as St. Cyril explains, "houses whose doorposts were elaborately adorned with emblems and devices." They had naught of the feeling of David (2 Samuel 7:2), "I dwell in an house of cedar, but the ark of God dwelleth within curtains."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) Is it time for you . . .--Literally, Is it time for you to dwell in your houses, and those ceiled?--i.e., probably with cedar and other costly woods. A crushing retort. If the adverse decree of Artaxerxes, which disallowed the building of Jerusalem (Ezra 4:21), had not hindered them from erecting magnificent residences for themselves, how could it reasonably excuse an utter neglect of God's House?
