Isaiah 5:9
In mine ears, [said] Yahweh of hosts,—Verily, houses in abundance, shall become, a desolation, Large and fair, without inhabitant;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
10For, ten yokes of vineyard, shall yield one bath,—And the seed of a homer, shall yield an ephah,
Cross References
2 Chronicles 36:21to fulfil the word of God, by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had paid off her sabbaths,—all the days of her lying desolate, she kept sabbath, to fulfil seventy years.
Proverbs 15:27He, troubleth his own house, who graspeth with greed, but, he that hateth gifts, shall live.
Isaiah 6:11Then said I—How long, My Lord? And he said—Until the time that Cities be wasted through having no inhabitant And houses—through having no men, And, the ground, be laid waste unto desolation;
Isaiah 27:10For the fortified city, is solitary, The dwelling forsaken and left as a wilderness,—There, shall the calf feed, And, there, lie down And shall consume the branches thereof:
Amos 5:11Therefore—because ye have trampled on the poor, and, the gift of corn, ye would take away from him, though, houses of hewn stone, ye have built, Yet shall ye not dwell in them,—Though, delightful vineyards, ye have planted, Yet shall ye not drink the wine of them.
Matthew 22:7And, the king, was provoked to anger,—and, sending his armies, destroyed those murderers, and, their city, 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 →