Haggai 1:2 (DBY)

Passage

Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that Jehovah's house should be built.

Nearby Context

Haggai 1:1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of Jehovah by the prophet Haggai unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,

Haggai 1:2 Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that Jehovah's house should be built.

Haggai 1:3 And the word of Jehovah came by Haggai the prophet, saying,

Haggai 1:4 Is it time for you that ye should dwell in your wainscoted houses, while this house lieth waste?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thus", "speaketh", "jehovah", "hosts", "saying", "people", "time", and "come". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "thus" and "speaketh", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 1's "In the second year of Darius the..." into verse 3's "And the word of Jehovah came by...", so "thus" and "speaketh" belong inside that flow. In Haggai context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "thus" and "speaketh" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.