Haggai 1:4 (YLT)

Passage

Is it time for you--you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?

Nearby Context

Haggai 1:2 Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: This people! --they have said, `The time hath not come, The time the house of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> to be built.'

Haggai 1:3 And there is a word of Jehovah by the hand of Haggai the prophet, saying:

Haggai 1:4 Is it time for you--you! To dwell in your covered houses, And this house to lie waste?

Haggai 1:5 And now, thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Set your heart to your ways.

Haggai 1:6 Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

Study Lenses

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

The nearby context moves from verse 3's "And there is a word of Jehovah..." into verse 5's "And now thus said Jehovah of Hosts...", so "time" and "you--you" 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 "you--you" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.