Haggai 1:4

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

(d) Showing that they sought not only their necessities, but their very pleasures before God's honour.

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

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