Haggai 1:2 (KJV)

Passage

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.

Nearby Context

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

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 1:4 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "thus", "speaketh", "lord", "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 "Then came the word of the LORD...", 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.