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Isaiah 5:8

World English Bible

Woe to those who join house to house,
who lay field to field, until there is no room,
and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!

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Isaiah 5:8 in other translations

Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no room, and ye be made to dwell alone in the midst of the land!

Isaiah 5:8 · American Standard Version

Isaiah 5:8 in context

  1. 6I will lay it a wasteland.
    It won’t be pruned or hoed,
    but it will grow briers and thorns.
    I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain on it.”
  2. 7For the vineyard of Yahweh of Armies is the house of Israel,
    and the men of Judah his pleasant plant:
    and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression;
    for righteousness, but, behold, a cry of distress.
  3. 8Woe to those who join house to house,
    who lay field to field, until there is no room,
    and you are made to dwell alone in the middle of the land!
  4. 9In my ears, Yahweh of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate,
    even great and beautiful, unoccupied.
  5. 10For ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath,
    and a homer of seed shall yield an ephah.”