Isaiah 5:9 “I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become des…”

Isaiah 5:9

I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

World English Bible

In my ears, the LORD of Armies says: “Surely many houses will be desolate, even great and beautiful, unoccupied.

American Standard Version

In mine ears saith Jehovah of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

Geneva Bible 1599

This is in mine cares, saith the Lord of hostes. Surely many houses shall be desolate, euen great, and faire without inhabitant.

Darby Translation

In mine ears Jehovah of hosts [hath said], Many houses shall assuredly become a desolation, great and excellent ones, without inhabitant.

Young's Literal Translation

By the weapons of Jehovah of Hosts Do not many houses a desolation become? Great and good without inhabitant!

Bible in Basic English

The Lord of armies has said to me secretly, Truly, numbers of great and fair houses will be waste, with no one living in them.

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Cross references

“In mine ears, said”

Isaiah 22:14 Amos 3:7

Isaiah 22:14 · BSB

The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.

Amos 3:7 · BSB

Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.

“desolate”

Matthew 23:38 Amos 5:11 Isaiah 5:6 Isaiah 27:10 2 Chronicles 36:21 Amos 6:11

Matthew 23:38 · BSB

Look, your house is left to you desolate.

Amos 5:11 · BSB

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Isaiah 5:6 · BSB

I will make it a wasteland, neither pruned nor cultivated, and thorns and briers will grow up. I will command the clouds that rain shall not fall on it.”

Isaiah 27:10 · BSB

For the fortified city lies deserted— a homestead abandoned, a wilderness forsaken. There the calves graze, and there they lie down; they strip its branches bare.

2 Chronicles 36:21 · BSB

So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD spoken through Jeremiah.

Amos 6:11 · BSB

For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

Also

Isaiah 6:11–12

Isaiah 6:11–12 · BSB

Then I asked: “How long, O Lord?” And He replied: “Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitant, until the houses are left unoccupied and the land is desolate and ravaged,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.

10For ten acres of vineyard will yield but a bath of wine, and a homer of seed only an ephah of grain. ”

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