“The Lord of Armies says this: These people say: The time has not come for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”(A)

The word of the Lord came through the prophet Haggai: “Is it a time for you yourselves to live in your paneled houses,(B) while this house[a] lies in ruins?”

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Footnotes

  1. 1:4 = the temple

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.

Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet, saying,

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

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