Isaiah 5:8

Hoy unto them that add bais to bais, 1 that join sadeh to sadeh, till there be no makom (place, home), 1 that ye alone are dwelling in the midst of ha'aretz! 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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!

In Context

7For the Kerem Hashem Tzva'os 1 is Bais Yisroel, 1 and the Ish Yehudah 1 are the planting of His delight; 1 and He looked for mishpat (justice), 1 but, hinei, mishpach (bloodshed, rapaciousness); 1 for tzedakah, but, hinei, tze'akah (cry of distress). 1

9Hashem Tzva'os said in my ozen, 1 Batim rabbim shall be in ruins, 1 gedolim and tovim, with no one to live in them. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:16And it came to pass, when Ach'av heard that Navot was dead, that Ach'av rose up to go down to the kerem of Navot the Yizre'eli, to take possession of it.

Proverbs 15:27He that is greedy of unjust gain troubleth his own bais, 1 but he that hateth mattanot (bribes) shall live. 1

Ezekiel 11:15Ben adam, thy brethren, even thy relatives, the anashim of thy geulah, and kol Bais Yisroel wholly, are those of whom the inhabitants of Yerushalayim have said, They + 11:15 the Exiles have gone far from Hashem; unto us is this land given in possession.

Micah 2:1Hoy (Woe) to them that devise aven (iniquity), 1 and plot rah (evil) upon their mishkavim (beds)! 1 At ohr haboker they carry it out, 1 because it is in the power of their hand. 1

Habakkuk 2:6Shall not all these take up a mashal against such, 1 with mocking poem riddles against him, 1 and say: Hoy (Woe) to him that increaseth that which is not his! 1 For how long? And to him that loadeth himself by the weight of pledges! + 2:6 i.e., heaps up by borrowing 1

Matthew 23:13But oy to you, Sofrim and Perushim, tzevuim (hypocrites), for in front of Bnei Adam you shut the Malchut HaShomayim. You do not go in yourselves, and the ones entering, you do not permit to enter.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 5:2-8

Israel Compared to a Vineyard. ( b. c. 758.) 1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill: 2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me… Read the whole commentary →

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