Isaiah 5:8

Woe to those who join house to house, who join field to field, 1 until no room remains, and you alone remain in the land! 1

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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 vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, 1 and the man of Judah his pleasant planting; 1 he waited for justice, but instead, there was killing; for righteousness, but, instead, a shout for help. 1

9Yahweh of hosts told me, 1 many houses will be empty, even great and impressive ones, without any inhabitant. 1

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:16When Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite and take possession of it.

Proverbs 15:27The robber brings trouble to his family, 1 but the one who hates bribes will live. 1

Ezekiel 11:15“Son of man, your brothers! Your brothers! The men of your clan and all the house of Israel! All of them are those of whom it is said by those living in Jerusalem, 'They are far away from Yahweh! This land was given to us as our possession.'

Micah 2:1Woe to those who plan iniquity, 1 to those who plan on their beds to do evil. 1 In the morning light they do it 1 because they have power. 1

Habakkuk 2:6Will not all these create a saying to ridicule him and a taunting song about him, saying, 1 'Woe to the one increasing what is not his! For how long will you increase the weight of the pledges you have taken?' 2

Matthew 23:13But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against people. For you do not enter it yourselves, and neither do you allow those about to enter to do so.

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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