Haggai 1:4 (KJV)

Passage

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

Nearby Context

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?

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.

Study Lenses

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

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