Haggai 1:4 (GNV)

Passage

Is it time for your selues to dwell in your sieled houses, and this House lie waste?

Nearby Context

Haggai 1:2 Thus speaketh the Lord of hostes, saying, This people say, The time is not yet come, that the Lords House should be builded.

Haggai 1:3 Then came the worde of the Lord by the ministerie of the Prophet Haggai, saying,

Haggai 1:4 Is it time for your selues to dwell in your sieled houses, and this House lie waste?

Haggai 1:5 Now therefore thus saith ye Lord of hostes, Consider your owne wayes in your hearts.

Haggai 1:6 Ye haue sowen much, and bring in litle: ye eate, but ye haue not ynough: ye drinke, but ye are not filled: ye clothe you, but ye be not warme: and he that earneth wages, putteth the wages into a broken bagge.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "time", "selues", "dwell", "sieled", "houses", and "waste". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "time" and "selues", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 3's "Then came the worde of the Lord..." into verse 5's "Now therefore thus saith ye Lord of...", so "time" and "selues" 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 "time" and "selues" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.