Isaiah 5:9
Do many houses not become a desolation by the weapons of YHWH of Hosts? Great and good without inhabitant!
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
10For ten acres of vineyard yield one bath, || And a homer of seed yields an ephah.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfill the word of YHWH in the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land has enjoyed its Sabbaths; all the days of the desolation it kept Sabbath—to the fullness of seventy years.
Proverbs 15:27A dishonest gainer is troubling his house, || And whoever is hating gifts lives.
Isaiah 6:11And I say, “Until when, O Lord?” And He says, “Surely until cities have been ruined without inhabitant, || And houses without man, || And the ground is ruined—a desolation,
Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city [is] alone, || A habitation cast out and forsaken as a wilderness, || There the calf delights, || And there it lies down, || And has consumed its branches.
Amos 5:11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, || And the tribute of grain you take from him, || Houses of hewn work you have built, || And you do not dwell in them, || Desirable vineyards you have planted, || And you do not drink their wine.
Matthew 22:7And the king having heard, was angry, and having sent forth his soldiers, he destroyed those murderers, and their city he set on fire;
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 →