the LORD of hosts. See note on 1 Samuel 1:3.
This People. Not Zerubbabel or Joshua.
time. Repeated here and in Haggai 1:4 for emphasis.
not. Septuagint reads "not yet".
Related Commentaries of Haggai 1:2
Haggai 1:2
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.