Isaiah 5:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.”
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“Woe to you who add house to house and join field to field until no place is left and you live alone in the land.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“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!”
King James Version · Public Domain“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!”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Woe <FI>to<Fi> those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 5:8 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 21:16And when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, he got up and went down to take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
- Job 20:21Nothing is left for him to consume; thus his prosperity will not endure.
- Proverbs 15:27He who is greedy for unjust gain brings trouble on his household, but he who hates bribes will live.
- Jeremiah 22:13“Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages,
- Ezekiel 11:15“Son of man, your brothers—your relatives, your fellow exiles, and the whole house of Israel—are those of whom the people of Jerusalem have said, ‘They are far away from the LORD; this land has been given to us as a possession.’
- Ezekiel 33:24“Son of man, those living in the ruins in the land of Israel are saying, ‘Abraham was only one man, yet he possessed the land. But we are many; surely the land has been given to us as a possession.’
- Micah 2:1Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
- Micah 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
- Habakkuk 2:6Will not all of these take up a taunt against him, speaking with mockery and derision: ‘Woe to him who amasses what is not his and makes himself rich with many loans! How long will this go on?’
- Habakkuk 2:9Woe to him who builds his house by unjust gain, to place his nest on high and escape the hand of disaster!
- Matthew 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
- Luke 12:16Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
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