Isaiah 5:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.”
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“I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.”
King James Version · Public Domain“In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 5:9 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 36:21So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.
- Job 20:21Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.
- Proverbs 15:27He who is greedy for unjust gain brings trouble on his household, but he who hates bribes will live.
- Isaiah 5:6I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”
- Isaiah 6:11Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,
- Isaiah 22:14The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.
- Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.
- Amos 3:7Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
- Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
- Amos 6:11For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
- Matthew 22:7The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
- Matthew 23:38Look, your house is left to you desolate.
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