Isaiah 5:9
In my ears [says] LORD of hosts, of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and a homer of seed shall yield [but] an ephah.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfill the word of LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths; as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Proverbs 15:27He who is greedy of gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes shall live.
Isaiah 6:11Then I said, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,
Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city is solitary, a habitation deserted and forsaken like the wilderness. There the calf shall feed, and there he shall lay down, and consume the branches of it.
Amos 5:11Inasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions of wheat from him. Ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them. Ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink the wine thereof.
Matthew 22:7But having heard that, the king was angry, and having sent forth his armies, he destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:9-18
Worldly-Mindedness Reproved; The Punishment of the Sensual. ( b. c. 758.) 8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth! 9 In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant. 10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah. 11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow… Read the whole commentary →