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Is it time? you think it full time to build your own houses, you judge it seasonable enough to lay out much cost on adorning them, what pretence can you make that it is not seasonable to build my house?
For you, Jews, who were by a king (that knew not your God) sent to build my house, you unthankful and forgetful ones.
To dwell; to settle yourselves securely, and for continuance with stateliness.
Ceiled; searched and with cedar wainscot, curiously carved and covered, and as richly adorned as if you were full of treasures.
Houses: it seems to intimate some of them had more than one house, a city and a country house, and whilst God’s house lay waste; they thus lavish out their wealth on private worldly conveniences, but grudge the charge on God’s house. Can you thus live without a temple, an altar, a sacrifice, and yet cannot live without stately houses? Do you owe so much to yourselves, and so little to your God? so much to your bodies, so little to your souls?
Lie waste; in its rubbish, or in bare, naked foundations without any superstructure.