A moment in scripture
Haggai 1:4
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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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The surrounding passage
- Haggai 1:2
Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.
- Haggai 1:3
Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,
- Haggai 1:5
Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.
- Haggai 1:6
Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.