Isaiah 5:9
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In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
In other translations
In mine ears said the Lord of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.I heard the LORD of Hosts declare: “Surely many houses will become desolate, great mansions left unoccupied.
Hebrew words
בְּאָזְנָיbe'azenaiin ears myH241יְהוָהyahwehYahwehH3068צְבָאוֹתtzeva'otof hostsH6635אִם־'im-ifH518לֹאlo'notH3808בָּתִּיםbatimhousesH1004רַבִּיםrabimmanyH7227לְשַׁמָּהleshamah<into> a wasteH8047יִהְיוּyihyuthey will becomeH1961גְּדֹלִיםgedolimgreat [houses]H1419וְטוֹבִיםvetovimand good [houses]H2896מֵאֵיןme'einfrom notH369יוֹשֵׁב׃yoshevinhabitantH3427
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- Matthew 23:38Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.Look, your house is left to you desolate.
- Amos 5:11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.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 22:14And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts.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 3:7Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.Surely the Lord GOD does nothing without revealing His plan to His servants the prophets.
- Amos 6:11For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”
- 2 Chronicles 36:21To fulfil the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.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 through Jeremiah.
- Isaiah 5:6And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.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 6:11-1211 Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until the cities be wasted without inhabitant, and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate, 12 And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.11 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, 12 until the LORD has driven men far away and the land is utterly forsaken.
- Isaiah 27:10Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.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.
- Matthew 22:7But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.The king was enraged, and he sent his troops to destroy those murderers and burn their city.
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