Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, the time is not yet come, [a]that the Lord’s house should be built.

Then came the word of the Lord by the ministry of the Prophet Haggai, saying,

Is it time for yourselves to dwell in your [b]ceiled houses, and this house lie waste?

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 1:2 Not that they condemned the building thereof, but they preferred policy and private profit to religion, being content with small beginnings.
  2. Haggai 1:4 Showing that they sought not only their necessities, but their very pleasures before God’s honor.

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