American Standard Version
"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste? "
— Haggai 1:4, American Standard Version
“Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?”
“"Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies waste?”
““Is it right for you to live in richly paneled houses while my temple is in ruins?”
“Is it time for you to dwell in ceiled houses, and this house lie desolate?”
“Is it a time for you to be living in roofed houses while this house is a waste?”
“Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?”
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,
Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, It is not the time for us to come, the time for Jehovah’s house to be built.
Then came the word of Jehovah by Haggai the prophet, saying,
Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your ceiled houses, while this house lieth waste?
Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
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.
Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.